Schedule
The Conference will feature workshops, keynote talks, AGI research "lightening" presentations, panel discussions, and fireside chats, all focused on the creation of machines that think.
Four days of exploration into the latest AGI research and innovation.
The conference will be a virtual and live event, with 3 options for attendance:
- Attend Live in Person
- Premium Virtual Attendance
- Free – Full Livestream of Conference
See the Registration page for the full list of pricing, and to reserve your attendance today.
Workshop 01
Scaling up Neural-Symbolic AGI with OpenCog Hyperon
Covering progress on the MeTTa language, Distributed Atomspace, Probabilistic Logic Network Temporal Reasoning, as well as an overview of the General Theory of Open-Ended Intelligence based on a neural-symbolic cognitive architecture.
For schedule and details, please visit the workshop website.
- Here-After
- Room 01
Workshop 02
NARS Tutorial & Workshop
AGI-oriented NARS (Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System) has been attracting increasing interest from researchers and students from around the world. The workshop will start with guest speaker’s presentations about projects related to NARS and a tutorial that introduces the conceptual design and current implementations of NARS. The workshop will conclude with a General Discussion focusing on future research.
For schedule and details, please see the workshop website.
- Here-After
- Room 2
Workshop 03
This workshop is centered around the idea of INLP, an extension of the interpretable AI (IAI) concept to NLP; INLP allows for acquisition of natural language, comprehension of textual communications, and production of textual messages in a reasonable and transparent way. The proposed presentations regarding Link Grammar (LG), unsupervised LG learning, interpretable NLG/NLS, and sentiment mining/topic matching cover various INLP methods that may bring a greater degree of GCI to proto-AGI pipelines.
For schedule and details, please see the workshop website.
- Here-After
- Room 3
Workshop 04
AGI in FinTech
The workshop will be dedicated to various aspects of applying AI/AGI for financial technologies in conventional and crypto finance. Topics will include Active Portfolio Management, Market Price Prediction, Market Prediction, and Market-Making AI Agents.
For schedule and details, please see the workshop website.
- Here-After
- Room 3
Workshop 05
The Open-Source Brain Simulator II models the capabilities and limitations of biological neurons and synapses. Including:
- Basic Neuron Models, Hebbian Synapses,
- Digital switching and Memory mechanisms
- Neuron Timing, refractory periods and the limits of information resolution
- Software modules make creating networks easier
- How a graph structure can be created in biologically modeled neurons
If participants bring a (Windows) laptop, you can download the open source software and do a hands-on during the demo as well.
For more details, please see the website.
See also this Introduction to Brain Simulator II.
- Here-After
- Room 4
Speakers
Charles Simon
Host & Speaker
Lobby Pre-Gathering
AGI-22 Welcome
AGI-22 Opening Message, "Open-Ended Motivations for AGI"
BEN GOERTZEL
HOST AND SPEAKER
Lightening Session 01
Lightening Presentations & Panel Discussion
- Erik M. Rehn, “Free Will Belief as a Consequence of Model-based Reinforcement Learning”
- Dimitris Papadimitriou, “Monte Carlo Bias Correction in Q-learning”
- Artem Menisov, “An approach to generation triggers for parrying backdoor in neural networks”
- Kirill Krinkin, Yulia Shichkina, “Cognitive Architecture for Co-Evolutionary Hybrid Intelligence”
Panel Discussion Session
BREAK
Technical Keynote
"Polynomial Functors: Natural Formal Models of Interaction"
Nelson Niu
Ph.D Student, University of Washington
LUNCH BREAK
Fireside Chat
Fireside Chat: "Novel Hardware for Enabling AGI and Machine Creativity"
Ben Goertzel
CEO, OpenCog Foundation and SingularityNET
Rachel St. Clair
CEO, Simuli
Lightening Session 02
Lightening Presentations & Panel Discussion
- Mohammadreza Alidoust, “Versatility-Efficiency Index (VEI): Towards a Comprehensive Definition of IQ for AGI Agents”
- Stanislav Selitskiy, “Elements of Continuous Reassessment and Uncertainty Self-Awareness: a Narrow Implementation for Face and Facial Expression Recognition”
- Alexander Ororbia, M. Alex Kelly Maze, “Learning using a Hyperdimensional Predictive Processing Cognitive Architecture”
- Roman Yampolskiy, “Ownability of AGI”
Panel Discussion Session
BREAK
Lightening Session 03
Lightening Presentations & Panel Discussion
- Jonathan Warrell, Alexey Potapov, Adam Vandervorst, Ben Goertzel, “A meta-probabilistic-programming language for bisimulation of probabilistic and non-well-founded type systems”
- Selmer Bringsjord, Naveen Govindarajulu, John Slowik, James Oswald, Michael Giancola, John Angel, Shreya Banerjee, “PERI.2 Goes to PreSchool and Beyond, in Search of AGI”
- James Oswald, “Market Prediction as a Task for AGI Agents”
- Michael Giancola, Selmer Bringsjord, “Toward Generating Natural-Language Explanations of Modal Logic Proofs”
Panel Discussion Session
Lightening Session 04
Lightening Presentations & Panel Discussion
- Aritra Sarkar, Zaid Al-Ars, Koen Bertels, “QKSA: Quantum Knowledge Seeking Agent”
- Samuel Alexander, “Extended subdomains: a solution to a problem of Hernández-Orallo and Dowe”
- Alexei V. Samsonovich, Zhen Liu, “On the possibility of regulation of human emotions via multimodal social interaction with an embodied agent controlled by eBICA-based emotional interaction model”
- Peter Boltuc, “Moral Space for Paraconsistent AGI”
Panel Discussion Session
Opening Event
What is Ethical Machine Creativity?
Sophia Robot
AGI Ambassador
Keynote Talk
It from no Bit: Basic Cosmology from an AI Perspective
Joscha Bach
Principal AI Engineer, Intel Labs
Break
Keynote Talk
Decentralization and Democracy Are Key to Ethical Machine Creativity
Ben Goertzel
CEO, OpenCog Foundation and SingularityNET
Panel Talk
Panel Discussion on Democracy and Decentralization for Ethical Machine Creativity
Moderator: Janet Adams, COO SingularityNET
Panel Speakers: Ben Goertzel, Kyrtin Atreides, Gabriel Axel Montes
Lunch Break
Keynote Talk
Open Source Deep Reinforcement Learning
Chris Poulin
TrueAGI Advisor
Panel Discussion
Strengths and Limitations of Deep Neural Models for Machine Creativity
Moderator: Janet Adams
Panel Speakers: Ed Keller, Dianne Krouse, Matt Iklé, Douglas Miles
Satellite Event
Lobby Pre-Gathering
Technical Keynote
Resource Management in AGI Systems
Rachel St. Clair
CEO, Simuli
Lightening Session 05
Lightening Presentations & Panel Discussion
- Linas Vepstas, “Grammar Induction – Experimental Results”
- Evgenii Vityaev, Anton Kolonin, Artem Molchanov & Andrey Kurpatov, “Brain Principles Programming”
- Anton Kolonin, Ali Raheman, Alex Glushchenko, Ikram Ansari & Arseniy Fokin, “Adaptive Multi-Strategy Market-Making Agent For Volatile Markets”
- Benet Oriol Sabat, “The Learning Agent Triangle: Towards a unified disambiguation of the AGI challenge”
Panel Discussion Session
Break
Technical Keynote
Open Source Deep Reinforcement Learning: Deep Dive
Chris Poulin
DRLearner Project, TrueAGI
Phil Tabor
Co-Leader-DRLearner Team, Machine Learning with Phil (Youtube)
Code Demo
Demo of Open Source DRLearner Tool
Dzvinka Yarish
Co-author-DRLearner
Lunch
Fireside Chat
Overcoming the Obstacles Between Here and AGI
Ben Goertzel
CEO SingularityNET
Gary Marcus
Founder and CEO, Robust.AI
Lightening Session 06
Lightening Presentations & Panel Discussion
- Elliot Catt, Marcus Hutter & Joel Veness, “Reinforcement Learning with Information-Theoretic Actuation”
- Tyler Cody, “Homomorphisms Between Transfer, Multi-Task, and Meta-Learning Systems”
- Tyler Cody, Niloofar Shadab, Alejandro Salado & Peter Beling, “Core and Periphery as Closed-System Precepts for Engineering General Intelligence”
- Paul Rosenbloom, “Thoughts on Architecture”
Panel Discussion Session
Break
Lightening Session 07
Lightening Presentations & Panel Discussion
- Gadi Singer, Joscha Bach & Tetiana Grinberg, “Thrill-K Architecture: Towards a Solution to the Problem of Knowledge Based Understanding”
- Patrick Hammer, Peter Isaev, Tony Lofthouse & Robert Johansson, “ONA for autonomous ROS-based Robots”
- Robert Johansson, Tony Lofthouse & Patrick Hammer, “Generalized Identity Matching in NARS”
Panel Discussion Session
Lightening Session 08
Lightening Presentations & Panel Discussion
- Jerald D. Kralik, “Toward a Comprehensive List of Necessary Abilities for Human Intelligence, Part 1: Constructing Knowledge”
- Jerald D. Kralik, “Toward a Comprehensive List of Necessary Abilities for Human Intelligence, Part 2: Using Knowledge”
- Jerald D. Kralik, “What can nonhuman animals, children, and g tell us about human-level artificial general intelligence (AGI)?”
- Bowen Xu & Quansheng Ren “Artificial Open World for Evaluating AGI: a Conceptual Design”
Panel Discussion Session
AGI-22 General Audience Day Sunday, August 21
Ethical Machine Creativity
On Sunday, August 21, the conference will feature a “General Audience Day,’’ open to the public, with AGI talks of a less technical nature to raise awareness of this world-changing technology, its implications, and its applications. The theme will be “Ethical Machine Creativity,” and the day will open with a welcome from Sophia the Robot, as a spokesperson for the future of AGI and a representation of AI as art, and as an AI “artist.”
The General Audience day is aimed at raising broader awareness of AGI as a research and development direction of great importance and relevance to the future of all AI, by sharing topics and discussions that a larger audience will find fascinating.
Why Ethical Machine Creativity?
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.
Conference Updates
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