Workshops

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There will be two workshops this year:

  • The NARS Cognitive Architecture
    • Introduction: Being one of the most sophisticated models of AGI, NARS attracts much interest from researchers, AI professionals and students from different parts of the world. As of now several NARS based systems have emerged, some are more advanced in implementation and others undergo continuous development. OpenNARS is more advanced implementation of NARS model that attempts to uniformly explain and reproduce many cognitive facilities, including reasoning, learning, planning, etc., so as to provide a unified theory, model, and system for AI as a whole. The ultimate goal of NARS project is to build thinking machines.
    • The workshop will be a one-day event on June 23. It will start with an introductory tutorial of the conceptual design and current implementations of NARS model, followed by presentations and discussions of the existing projects, and conclude with a panel discussion about future research. The workshop is open to all AGI-20 attendance. Additional demonstrations and tutorials may be arranged in a case by case manner for the people who want to learn more about NARS.
    • Organizing Committee: Peter Isaev (Temple University), Pei Wang (Temple University), Hugo Latapie (Cisco), Kris Thorisson (Reykjavik University), Antonio Chella (University of Palermo)
    • A full detailed and up-to-date schedule is at the tutorial and workshop website http://opennars.org/workshop2020/
  • Next Generation AGI Architectures
    • Abstract: Cognitive architectures constitute one of the major approaches to AGI. However, the development of architectures is a long-term effort, and mature architectures capable of showing interesting results usually inherit not too recent ideas, design solutions, and technologies. At the same time, AGI, computer science, cognitive sciences and other related fields have shown notable progress in recent years that calls for rethinking the space of possible designs of AGI architectures.
    • “New Generation of AGI Architectures” will be a one-day workshop intended for discussing open questions in designing AGI architectures and will cover a wide range of topics including novel models of computations, graph database technologies, inference engines, neural-symbolic systems, probabilistic and logical reasoning integration, and others.
    • Tentative Schedule:
      • 10:00AM -12:00 PM