Here We Come, Seattle!
AGI-22
The 15th Annual AGI Conference
Live & Virtual From Seattle, WA, USA
from 19-22 August 2022
The Conference
Four days of exploration into the latest AGI research and innovation.
Since the first AGI Conference in 2008, the AGI conference series is the only major conference series devoted wholly and specifically to the creation of AI systems possessing general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond.
Facilitating communication among those interested in AGI
By gathering together active researchers in the field, for presentation of results and discussion of ideas, we accelerate our progress toward our common goal.
REACHING BOTH TECHNICAL EXPERTS AND REAL-WORLD EXECUTORS
AGI Conference features TWO distinct elements:
- An in-depth research conference aimed at global AGI inventors and practitioners.
- A general-audience event aimed at interested non-experts from the corporate, government, education, arts and tech sectors
The event includes keynotes, panels, and discussions with leading AGI scientists and experts all over the world; research paper presentations; and 5 workshops where developers and researchers can learn about the newest tools for AGI development.
Three Options for Live or Virtual Attendance:
Attend Live in Person
The conference will be held live in person at the historic Seattle venue “The Crocodile,” where participants will get to be a part of the action – the discussions, the interaction, in an atmosphere of creativity working toward creating the future of machine intelligence together.
- Days 1, 2 and 4 will be held at The Here-After stage.
- Day 3, the General Audience Day, will be held at The Crocodile main stage
Premium Virtual Attendance
For those who cannot attend live in the area, premium virtual attendance will allow the next best thing – a direct line to the conference and presenters, so that you can experience more of the direct interaction of the live conference.
FREE – Full Livestream of Conference (sponsored by SingularityNET)
AGI will be humanity’s greatest creation, and its creation should be shared by all of humanity. SingularityNET will be hosting a FREE live stream of the entire 4 days of the conference on their YouTube channel so that the global AGI community can participate at no cost.
Register now for your live, premium virtual, or live stream participation
A Message from the Chairman
“We invite you to join us in bringing to the world the most important event in the history of AI. My colleagues at the AGI Society and I have been organizing annual AGI conferences and workshops since 2006, but this year is different. We are now seeing billions of dollars of investment flowing into AGI R&D, and interest from national leaders and the UN as well as corporations in every sector. The 2022 AGI Conference will be the first AGI R&D conference of this new era in which AGI is a widely-accepted practical pursuit making immediate impact on the world. We will be thrilled to have your collaboration in building this new reality.”
Dr. BEN GOERTZEL
Chairman, AGI Society, OpenCog Foundation; CEO, SingularityNET
Keynote Speakers
The longest-running legacy of dedicated AGI research
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 “artificial intelligence.” The first workshop on AGI was held in 2006, followed by the first AGI Conference in 2008.
The conference encourages 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.
Since 2006, the proceedings have been organized by the Artificial General Intelligence Society in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). The proceedings of AGI-22 will be published as a book in Springer’s Lecture Notes in AI series.
Schedule
*All times listed in PST Timezone
AGI Workshop Sessions
Workshop 01 - 9AM to 5pm, Room 01
Scaling up Neural-Symbolic AGI with OpenCog Hyperon
Hosts: Ben Goertzel, Alexey Potopav
Workshop 02 - 9AM to 5PM, Room 02
NARS Tutorial & Workshop
Hosts: Patrick Hammer, Peter Isaev
Workshop 03 - 9AM to 1PM, Room 03
Interpretable Natural Language Processing (INLP)
Hosts: Anton Kolonin, Linas Vepstas
Workshop 04 - 2PM to 5PM, Room 03
AGI in FinTech
Hosts: Anton Kolonin, Chris Poulin
Workshop 05 - 9AM to 1PM, Room 04
Brain Simulator Neural Simulator
Host: Charles Simon
Technical Keynotes & Presentations
Technical Keynotes:
9:00 AM - Ben Goertzel "Conference Opening & Considering the Open Ended Motivations for AGI"
11:20 AM - Nelson Niu, "Polynomial Functors: Natural Formal Models of Interaction"
1: 25 PM - Fireside Chat "Novel Hardware for Enabling AGI and Machine Creativity"
with Rachel St. Clair & Ben Goertzel
Contributed Paper Presentations
Session 01, 10:00 AM
Session 02, 2:10 PM
Session 03, 3:30 PM
Session 04, 4:35 PM
Lobby Poster Presentations
General Audience Day
Ethical Machine Creativity
Sophia the Robot "Ethical Machine Creativity" - 9:00 AM
Joscha Bach, "It from no Bit: Basic Cosmology from an AI Perspective" - 9:15 AM
Ben Goertzel, "Decentralization and Democracy Are Key to Ethical Machine Creativity" - 10:30 AM
Panel Discussion: "Democracy and Decentralization for Ethical Machine Creativity" - 11:15 AM
Moderator: Janet Adams
Panel Speakers: Ben Goertzel, Kyrtin Atreides, Gabriel Axel Montes
Charles Simon, "Creating an AGI" - 1:30 PM
Chris Poulin,"Open Source Deep Reinforcement Learning" - 2:15 PM
Ed Keller, "Advanced AI in VQ-GAN Creativity" - 3:00 PM
Panel Discussion: "Strengths and Limitations of Deep Neural Models for Machine Creativity" - 3:30 PM
Moderator: Janet Adams
Panel Speakers: Ed Keller, Dianne Krouse, Ruiting Lian, Matt Iklé
Machine creativity is key to the AGI quest. Creative improvisation and experimentation is required for bold generalization beyond one's experience, training and initial configuration. Art, music, science, design, entrepreneurship and other creative pursuits are part of the essence of humanity. Self-transformation that brings a system beyond its previously conceived boundaries is core to the nature of open-ended intelligence and is fundamentally creative in nature.
As AI systems are rolled out increasingly widely in practical applications, however, there is growing concern about the appropriateness and impact of AI systems' autonomous productions and choices. Creative acts are often intentionally provocative; but just as people don't always enjoy being provoked by human artists, they don't always enjoy being provoked by AIs.
How can we best enable the free-flowing creativity that is intrinsic to powerful general intelligence, while ensuring that the creative actions and productions of AI systems are at least on the whole in line with human benefit? It's an abstract question and yet one that pops up in very concrete forms in countless application areas including dialogue systems, AI art and music generators, NPCs in games and metaverses, scientific and medical hypothesis systems, and more.
Technical Keynotes & Presentations
Technical Keynotes:
9:00 AM - Rachel St. Clair "Resource Management in AGI Systems"
11:20 AM - Chris Poulin & Phil Tabor, "Open Source Deep Reinforcement Learning: Deep Dive"
11:50 AM - Demo: Dzvinka Yarish, "Demo of Open Source DRLearner Tool"
1: 20 PM - Fireside Chat "Overcoming the Obstacles Between Here and AGI"
with Gary Marcus & Ben Goertzel
Contributed Paper Presentations
Session 05, 10:00AM
Session 06, 2:05 PM
Session 07, 3:25 PM
Session 08, 4:15 PM
Lobby Poster Presentations
Satellite Event
Jam Galaxy + SMASH Concert
The Jam Galaxy band, with Desdemona, the robot lead vocalist, will be hosting a special showcase performance on Sunday evening as a follow-up to this fantastic day of AGI. The event will feature five well-known bands and artists and be a fundraising event for SMASH, a regional health care provider for musicians. Jam Galaxy is dedicated to improving the well-being of artists globally through direct impacts on musicians’ ability to be self-sustainable, as well as supporting essential organizations like SMASH.
All registrants of the conference will include concert attendance.
Artificial General Intelligence
To understand the 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 “thinking machines” – 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 “narrow AI” – the production of AI systems displaying intelligence regarding specific, highly constrained tasks.
In recent years, however…
…more and more researchers have recognized the necessity – and feasibility – 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 “human-level intelligence” and more broadly artificial general intelligence. AGI research differs from ordinary AI research by stressing 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.
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.
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In-Venue seats are Limited! See the Registration page for the full list of pricing, and to reserve your attendance today.
Our Proud Sponsors
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We couldn’t make this amazing event happen without our sponsors – these organizations are passionate about AGI, and we are greatful to have them. Check them out yourself!
AGI Society
Event Organizer
SingularityNET
Co-Organizer & Livestream Sponsor
Future AI
AGI Session Sponsor
TrueAGI
Event Sponsor
Springer
Procedings Publisher
Conference Updates
The Artificial General Intelligence Society is a nonprofit facilitating cooperation and communication among those developing AGI.
The AGI Society has hosted the AGI Conference series since 2008.