Schedule « The Eighth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence

Schedule

WED July 22
- 8:30AM — registration desk opens
- 9AM-9:15 AM — conference intro, Ben Goertzel (video)
- 9:15 – 10:30AM — Tutorial, “Evaluation of intelligent systems: task-oriented or ability-oriented?” , José Hernández-Orallo (slides | video)
- 10:30-11AM coffee break
- 1:30 – 3:00PM, Tutorial by Alexey Potapov on “Minimum Description Length and AGI” (slides | video)
- 12:30-1:30 Lunch
- 11AM-12:30PM — Tutorial, “Connecting AGI Systems to Humanoid Robots: Benefits, Lessons and Challenges”, Ben Goertzel, David Hanson and Sophia the Robot (video)
- 3:00 Coffee Break
- 3:30 – 5PM CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION 1
THURS July 23
- 8:30AM — registration desk opens
- 9-9:15 AM — conference intro, Ben Goertzel
- 9:15-10:30AM— keynote by Juergen Schmidhuber on “The Deep Learning RNNassiance” (slides | video)
- 10:30 – 11 coffee break
- 11-12:45 CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION 2
- 12:45-1:45 lunch
- 1:45 – 3:00PM CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION 3
- 3:00-3:30 coffee break
- 3:30-5 CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION 4
FRI July 24
- 9-10:15AM — keynote by Frank Wood on Probabilistic Programming (slides | video)
  In the evening Dr. Wood also gave an impromptu tutorial for interested AGI-15 attendees using Anglican’s getting started guide.
- 10:15-10:30AM – discussion
- 10:30AM – coffee break
- 11 – 12:15 CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION 5
- 12:15-1:15 lunch
- 1:15-2:15PM — Special Presentation by GoodAI, “The GoodAI Brain Simulator: Prototyping AI Architectures” (video)
- 2:15-3:30 CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION 6
- 3:30 – 4:00PM – coffee break
- 4:00 – 6:00PM – Poster Boasters (video)
- 6 – 8PM — Awards, Poster viewing session, and reception
SAT July 25
- 9AM-10:45AM — CONTRIBUTED TALKS SESSION 7
- 10:45AM – coffee break
- 11:15AM-12:45PM – Workshop on Self-Reference and Self-Models for Cognitive Architectures. Led by Frank Bergmann
- Lunch
- 1:45PM-3:15PM – Workshop on Distributed Agency and AGI. Led by Weaver (David Weinbaum) and Viktoras Veitas, Global Brain Institute, Free University of Brussels
- 3:15PM-3:45PM — coffee break
- 3:45PM – 6:15PM. Workshop on Socioeconomic Implications of AGI. Led by Ben Goertzel

Contributed Talks Sessions

Contributed talks are up to 18 minutes long. Each Talk Session ends with a panel discussion of 15-25 minutes.

Session 1: Philosophy of AI
- Pei Wang and Patrick Hammer (pdf | slides | video)
  Assumptions of Decision-Making Models in AGI
- Roman Yampolskiy (pdf)
  The Space of Possible Mind Designs
- Ben Goertzel (pdf | video)
  Are there Deep Reasons Underlying the Pathologies of Today’s Deep Learning Algorithms?
Session 2: Evaluation
- Kristinn R. Thórisson, Jordi Bieger, Stephan Schiffel and Deon Garrett (pdf | slides | video)
  Towards Flexible Task Environments for Comprehensive Evaluation of Artificial Intelligent Systems & Automatic Learners
- José Hernández-Orallo (pdf | slides | video)
  Stochastic Tasks: Difficulty and Levin Search
- Javier Insa-Cabrera and José Hernández-Orallo (pdf | slides | video)
  Instrumental Properties of Social Testbeds
- Nader Chmait, David Dowe, David Green and Yuan-Fang Li (pdf | slides | video)
  Observation, Communication and Intelligence in Agent-Based Systems
- Panel discussion (video)
Session 3: Cognitive Architectures
- Tarek Richard Besold, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Artur D’Avila Garcez, Alessandro Saffiotti, Martin Fischer and Alan Bundy (pdf | slides | video)
  Anchoring Knowledge in Interaction: Towards a harmonic subsymbolic/symbolic framework and architecture of computational cognition
- Frank Bergmann and Brian Fenton (pdf | slides | video)
  Scene Based Reasoning
- Paul S. Rosenbloom, Jonathan Gratch and Volkan Ustun (pdf | slides | video)
  Towards Emotion in Sigma: From Appraisal to Attention
- Panel discussion (video)
Session 4: Methods of Inference
- Vita Batishcheva and Alexey Potapov (pdf | slides | video)
  Genetic Programming on Program Traces as an Inference Engine for Probabilistic Languages
- Ben Goertzel, Nil Geisweiller, Eddie Monroe, Mike Duncan, Selamawit Yilma, Meseret Dastaw, Misgana Bayetta, Amen Belayneh, Matthew Ikle and Gino Yu (pdf | video)
  Speculative Scientific Inference via Synergetic Combination of Probabilistic Logic and Evolutionary Pattern Recognition
- Susumu Katayama (pdf | video)
  Towards Human-Level Inductive Functional Programming
- Nate Soares and Benja Fallenstein (pdf | slides | video)
  Two Attempts to Formalize Counterpossible Reasoning in Deterministic Settings
- Panel discussion (video)
Session 5: Universal Algorithmic Intelligence
- Benja Fallenstein, Nate Soares and Jessica Taylor (pdf | slides | video)
  Reflective Variants of Solomonoff Induction and AIXI
- Peter Sunehag and Marcus Hutter (pdf | video)
  Using Localization and Factorization to Reduce the Complexity of Reinforcement Learning
- Eray Özkural (pdf | video)
  Ultimate Intelligence Part I: Physical Completeness and Objectivity of Induction
  Winner of the Kurzweil Prize for Best AGI Idea
- Panel discussion (video)
Session 6: Time and Resource Bounds
- Pei Wang and Patrick Hammer (pdf | slides | video)
  Issues in Temporal and Causal Inference
- Eric Nivel, Kristinn R. Thórisson, Bas Steunebrink and Jürgen Schmidhuber (pdf | slides | video)
  Anytime Bounded Rationality
- Abdul Rahim Nizamani, Jonas Juel, Ulf Persson and Claes Strannegård (pdf | slides | video)
  Bounded Cognitive Resources and Arbitrary Domains
  Winner of the Cognitive Science Society Prize for Best Student Paper
- Panel discussion (video)
Session 7: Motivation and Safety
- Jordi Bieger, Kristinn R. Thórisson and Pei Wang (pdf | slides | video)
  Safe Baby AGI
- Can Eren Sezener (pdf | slides | video)
  Inferring human values for safe AGI design
- Joscha Bach (pdf | video)
  Modeling Motivation in MicroPsi 2
  Winner of the Kurzweil Prize for Best AGI Paper
- Roman Yampolskiy (pdf | slides | video)
  The Space of Possible Mind Designs
- Panel discussion (video)

Posters

Posters will be allotted 5 minutes each for oral presentation in the Poster Boaster Session, right before the Poster Session.

Ute Schmid and Marco Ragni (pdf | video)
Comparing Computer Models Solving Number Series Problems
Claes Strannegård, Simone Cirillo and Johan Wessberg (pdf | video)
Emotional Concept Development
Mayank Daswani and Jan Leike (pdf | video)
A Definition of Happiness for Reinforcement Learning Agents
Marc Halbrügge, Michael Quade and Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht (pdf | video)
How can Cognitive Modeling Benefit from Ontologies? Evidence from the HCI Domain
Chiaki Sakama and Katsumi Inoue (pdf | video)
Can Machines Learn Logics?
Arthur Franz (pdf | video)
Toward tractable universal induction through recursive program learning
Alexey Potapov, Vita Batishcheva and Sergey Rodionov (pdf | video)
Optimization Framework with Minimum Description Length Principle for Probabilistic Programming
Vitaly Khudobakhshov, Andrey Pitko and Denis Zotov (pdf | video)
Programming languages and artificial general intelligence
Abram Demski (pdf | video)
Expression Graphs: Unifying Factor Graphs and Sum-Product Neworks
Roman Yampolskiy (pdf | video)
Analysis of Types of Self-Improving Software
Roman Yampolskiy (pdf | video)
On the Limits of Recursively Self-Improving AGI
Jose Hernandez-Orallo (pdf | video)
C-tests revisited: back and forth with complexity
Joerg Zimmermann, Henning Henze and Armin Cremers (pdf | video)
Gödel Agents in a Scalable Synchronous Agent Framework
Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg (pdf | video)
Decision-Making During Language Understanding by Intelligent Agents
Ruiting Lian, Changle Zhou, Ben Goertzel, Rodas Solomon, Amen Belayneh and Gino Yu (pdf | video)
From Specialized Syntax to General Logic: The Case of Comparatives
Zoltan Toser and Andras Lorincz (pdf | video)
The Cyber-Physical System Approach towards Artificial General Intelligence: The Problem of Verification
Jochen Kerdels and Gabriele Peters (pdf | video)
A New View on Grid Cells Beyond the Cognitive Map Hypothesis
Lydia Ould Ouali, Charles Rich and Nicolas Sabouret (pdf | video)
Plan Recovery in Reactive HTNs Using Symbolic Planning

The Eighth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence

Berlin, July 22-25 2015

Schedule

Schedule

Contributed Talks Sessions

Posters