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August 6-9, 2019, Shenzhen, China<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immediately Preceding IJCAI, in Macau, China which takes place 10-16 August 2019
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Both Shenzhen and Macau are easily accessible from Hong Kong via local mass transit (ferry and rail). Shenzhen also has a separate airport. For visitors from many countries, one can obtain a five-day “Visa on Arrival” (VOA) for visitation to Shenzhen. Click here for further information: https:\/\/www.travelchinaguide.com\/cityguides\/guangdong\/shenzhen\/visa-on-arrival.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Also if you need to take a taxi to the venue (from the airport or ferry terminal for example) you can use the image here<\/a> to tell your driver to take you to the Sheraton hotel\n\n\n\n

The AGI conferences, since the first one way back in 2006, have been organized by the Artificial General Intelligence Society<\/a>, in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence<\/a> (AAAI). The proceedings of AGI-19 will be published as a book in Springer\u2019s Lecture Notes in AI<\/a> series, and all the accepted papers will be available online. When available, the eBook version can be found at: https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-030-27005-6<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cArtificial General Intelligence\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To understand the meaning and importance of the AGI conference series, recall that the original goal of the AI field, when it was founded in the  middle of the previous century, was the construction of \u201cthinking machines\u201d \u2013  computer systems with human-like general intelligence. Due to the difficulty of this task, for the last few decades the majority of AI researchers have focused on what has been called \u201cnarrow AI\u201d \u2013 the production of AI systems displaying intelligence regarding specific, highly constrained tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, however, more and more researchers have recognized the necessity \u2013 and feasibility \u2013 of returning to the original goals of the field by treating intelligence as a whole. Increasingly, there is a call for a transition back to confronting the more difficult issues of \u201chuman-level intelligence\u201d and more broadly artificial general intelligence. AGI research differs from the ordinary AI research by stressing on the versatility and wholeness of intelligence, and by carrying out the engineering practice according to an outline of a system comparable to the human mind in a certain sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AGI conference series has played, and continues to play, a significant role in this resurgence of research on artificial intelligence in the deeper, original sense of the term of “artificial intelligence”. The conferences encourage interdisciplinary research based on different understandings of intelligence, and exploring different approaches.   As the  AI field becomes increasingly commercialized and well accepted, maintaining and emphasizing a coherent focus on the AGI goals at the heart of the field remains more critical than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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