Schedule
Here is the schedule for AGI-21. Please check this page for updates.
VIDEOS FOR ALL FOUR DAYS OF THE AGI-21 CONFERENCE CAN ALL BE FOUND ON SINGULARITYNET”S YOUTUBE PAGE AT https://www.youtube.com/c/SingularityNET/videos
NOTE THAT ALL TIMES ARE PDT
Friday October 15: Workshops at Hilton Garden Inn Palo Alto
We have 3 technical workshops with a mix of F2F and virtual presenters.
Room 1 SCALING UP NEURO-SYMBOLIC AND INTEGRATIVE AGI ARCHITECTURES: https://youtu.be/yky-9rZVZEQ
Room 2 NARS: https://youtu.be/bh2vx_d_img
Room 3 INTERPRETABLE LANGUAGE PROCESSING: https://youtu.be/Rcgydm9dlYg
NARS Tutorial and Workshop
Details are at https://cis.temple.edu/tagit/events/workshop2021/index.html
Workshop Leaders: Christian Hahm (on-site), Wang, Peter Isaev (remote)
9:00am – 11:00am NARS Workshop 1: NARS Tutorial and Demonstration
11:00am – 12:00pm NARS Workshop 2: NARS Basic Functionality Overview
12:00pm – 1:00pm: Lunch Break
1:00pm – 6:00pm NARS Workshop 3: Overview and Demonstration of OpenNARS and ONA
Interpretable Language Processing (INLP)
Details can be found at https://aigents.github.io/inlp/
Workshop Leaders: Linas Vepstas (on-site), Anton Kolonin, Vignav Ramesh (from Russia) (also pre-recorded)
9:30am – 10:30am: Link Grammar for AGI
10:30am – 11:30am: Unsupervised Link Grammar Learning
11:30 – 12:30: Interpretable Sentiment; Mining and Topic Matching.
12:30 – 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00pm – 2:00pm: Interpretable Natural Language Generation and Segmentation Using Link Grammar
2:00pm- 3:00pm: Parsing using a Grammar of Word Association Vectors
3:00pm – 3:30pm: Wrap up and final Q & A
Scaling up Neural-Symbolic and Integrative AGI Architectures:
Further workshop details are here.
Workshop Leaders: Ben Goertzel, Matthew Iklé (on-site), Alexey Potapov, Nil Geisweiller (remote)
9:00am – 12:00am: Scaling up Neural-Symbolic and Integrative AGI Architectures
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch Break
1:00pm- 5:30pm: Continued workshops: See details here.
Saturday October 16: “How, When and Why AGI: Understanding the Emerging AGI (R)evolution” a day of general audience sessions at The Computer History Museum
10:00-10:30: Ben Goertzel: “The Unfolding AGI Revolution”
10:30-11:30: Randal Koene: “AGI, Brain-Computer Interfacing and Whole-Brain Emulation”
11:30-1:45: Break
11:45 -12:15: James Boyd: “The Singularity Index”
12:15-1:15: Lunch (Box lunch provided)
1:15-2:15: Joscha Bach: “Cognitive Science and the Path to AGI”
2:15-3:15: Panel on Approaches to AGI
(Randal Koene, Matt Ikle’, Ben Goertzel, Josef Urban, Joscha Bach)
3:15-3:30: Break
3:30-4:00: Julia Mossbridge: “Building What we Struggle to Be: Loving and Emotionally-Aware AI”
4:00-5:00: Ben Goertzel, Introducing Grace — An Intelligent Humanoid Robot for Eldercare and Nursing Support
5:00-6:00: Panel on Transparency, Decentralization and AGI Ethics
(Ben Goertzel, Randal Koene, James Boyd, Janet Adams, Nichol Bradford, Julia Mossbridge, Amara Angelica )
Speakers/Panelists and Affiliations
Janet Adams: SingularityNET
Amara Angelica: SingularityNET; KurzweilAI
Joscha Bach: Intel Labs
James Boyd: SingularityNET; Wolfram
Nichol Bradford: Willow Group; Transformative Technology
Ben Goertzel: AGI Society; SingularityNET
Matt Ikle’: AGI Society; SingularityNET
Randal Koene: Carbon Copies Foundation
Julia Mossbridge: California Institute of Integral Studies; Institute of Noetic Sciences
Josef Urban: Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics & Cybernetics
Sunday and Monday October 17 and 18: Technical Keynotes and Contributed Talks at Hilton Garden Inn Palo Alto
Please see the Keynotes page for more information on each speaker.
9:30 – 10:30: Francois Chollet “The Missing Piece in the Quest for Greater Generality in AI”
10:30 – 10:45: Break
10:45 – 11:45: Yoshua Bengio “Conscious Processing and Systematic Generalization with System 2 Deep Learning”
11:45- 12:45: Tomas Mikolov “AGI: Why and how?”
12:45-2:00: Lunch Break
2:00-3:00: Jonathan Warrell – “Probabilistic Dependent Types and Semantics in AGI: Formal and Philosophical Perspectives”
3:00-3:45: Contributed Papers — Emergence and Learning
C. S. Munford: Epistolution: How a Systems View of Biology May Explain General Intelligence
Tyler Cody: Mesarovician Abstract Learning Systems
Rachel St Clair: The Role of Bio-Inspired Modularity in General Learning
3:45-4:00: Break
4:00-5:00: Contributed Papers — Cognitive Architectures and Mathematical Formalisms
Michael S P Miller: The Piagetian Modeler
Christian Hahm, Boyang Xu and Pei Wang: Goal Generation and Management in NARS
Jincheng Zhou and Volkan Ustun: PySigma: Towards Enhanced Grand Unification for the Sigma Cognitive Architecture
Samuel Alexander and Marcus Hutter: Reward-Punishment Symmetric Universal Intelligence
October 18
7:30-8:00: David Hanson: “Artistic Social Robotics as a Path to Human-AI Co-Evolution and Understanding, Benevolent AGI”
8:00-9:30: Q&A for Online ContributedTalks I
Matteo Belenchia, Kristinn R. Thórisson, Leonard M. Eberding and Arash Sheikhlar: Elements of Task Theory
Leonard M. Eberding, Matteo Belenchia, Arash Sheikhlar and Kristinn R. Thórisson: About the Intricacy of Tasks
Arthur Franz: Experiments on the generalization of machine learning algorithms
Anton Kolonin: Neuro-symbolic architecture for experiential learning in discrete and functional environments
Per Roald Leikanger Navigating Conceptual Space; A new take on Artificial General Intelligence
Eray Ozkural: Measures of Intelligence, Perception and Intelligent Agents
Alexey Potapov and Vitaly Bogdanov: Univalent foundations of AGI are (not) all you need
Arash Sheikhlar, Leonard Eberding and Kristinn Thórisson: Causal Generalization in Autonomous Learning Controllers
Vladimir Smolin: AI Future: From Internal Vectors to Simple Objects States Subspaces Maps
Grace Solomonoff: A Thousand Brains and a Million Theories
Evgenii Vityaev and Yury Kolonin: On comparative analysis of rule-based cognitive architectures
Artem Zholus and Aleksandr I. Panov: Case-based Task Generalization in Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Ali Raheman, Anton Kolonin and Ikram Ansari: Adaptive Multi-Strategy
Market Making Agent
9:30-10:30: Nell Watson – “Machines for Moral Enlightenment”
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-11:45: Gary Marcus – “Towards a Proper Foundation for Artificial Intelligence”
11:45- 12:45: Geordie Rose – “Robot Brains”
12:45-2:00: Lunch Break
2:00- 3:00: Paul Rosenbloom – “Lumping and Splitting: Understanding Cognition via the Common Model and Dichotomic Maps”
3:00 -4:00: Josef Urban – “Towards the Dream of Self-Improving Universal Reasoning AI”
4:00-4:15: Break
4:15-6:00: Q&A for Online Contributed Talks II
Mohammadreza Alidoust: AGI Brain II: The Upgraded Version with Increased Versatility Index
Michael Timothy Bennett: Compression, The Fermi Paradox and Artificial Super-Intelligence
Michael Timothy Bennett: Symbol Emergence and The Solutions to Any Task
Michael Timothy Bennett and Yoshihiro Maruyama: The Artificial Scientist: Logicist, Emergentist, and Universalist Approaches to Artificial General Intelligence
Robert Freeman: Parsing using a grammar of word association vectors
Yoshihiro Maruyama: Categorical Artificial Intelligence: The Integration of Symbolic and Statistical AI for Verifiable, Ethical, and Trustworthy AI
Yoshihiro Maruyama: Moral Philosophy of Artificial General Intelligence: Agency and Responsibility
Saty Raghavachary: Biological intelligence considered in terms of physical structures and phenomena
Alexei V. Samsonovich: A Virtual Actor Behavior Model Based on Emotional Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture
Vignav Ramesh and Anton Kolonin: Unsupervised Context-Driven Question
Answering Based on Link Grammar
Claes Strannegård: The Ecosystem Path to AGI
Robert Wünsche: 20NAR1 – An alternative NARS implementation design
Bowen Xu, Xinyi Zhan and Quansheng Ren: The Gap between Intelligence and Mind
Tom Xu and Yoshihiro Maruyama: Neural String Diagrams: A Universal Modeling Language for Categorical Deep Learning
Roman Yampolskiy: AGI Control Theory
King-Yin Yan: AGI via Combining Logic with Deep Learning