The 17th Annual AGI Conference
August 13-16 2024

IN-PERSON & VIRTUAL FROM SEATTLE, WA, USA

The foremost conference dedicated entirely to the latest AGI Research

There is a growing recognition, in the AI field and beyond that the threshold of achieving AGI — where machine intelligence matches or even surpasses human intelligence — is within our near-term reach.

This increases the importance of building our fundamental understanding of what AGI is and can be, and what are the various routes for getting there.

→ What kinds of AGI systems may be feasible to create in the near term, with what relative strengths and weaknesses?

→ What are the biggest unsolved problems we need to resolve to get to human-level AGI?

→ What are the right ways to measure the capabilities of AI systems as they approach and then exceed human-level AGI?

→ What are the most feasible methodologies to provide emerging AGI systems with guidance, both cognitively and ethically, as they develop?

→ How should we think about the roles of industry, government, academia and the open source community in the next stages of development toward AGI?

→ How will the advent of AGI alter the fabric of society, our jobs, and our daily lives?

The AGI Conference series is the oldest and longest running conference series focused on research and achievements related to general machine intelligence.​

The series provides a unique platform for discussion and exploration in this field, and this year’s conference, AGI-24, will be highlighting and featuring AI groundbreaking research on the frontiers of this rapidly accelerating technology.

Join us in exploring the near-term possibilities of AGI systems, and the unsolved puzzles on the road to achieving human-level intelligence.
Engage in thought-provoking discussions about measuring AI capabilities as they evolve and potentially surpass human intellect. And take the opportunity to network and make new connections within this advanced community of innovators.

Watch the conference stream recordings:

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There has never been a better time for us to develop a deeper understanding of AGI and its accelerating arrival, as well as take a look at the landscape of potential AGI architectures, AI modalities, and the potential developmental directions we can take toward AGI.

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence

The 25 papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. The papers focus on the main theme of AGI 2024: ‘Understanding Artificial General Intelligence’, with discussions on various central concepts of general intelligence including thought, understanding, meaning, creativity, insight, reasoning, autonomy, attention and control.

Available from our proceedings publisher, Springer :

The AGI Society is excited to announce:

BICA*AI Society Virtual Conference will be colocated with AGI-24 in Seattle, WA

Register to attend the BICA*AI-24 Conference (virtual) via the Eventbrite Page.

Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) are computational frameworks for building intelligent agents that are inspired from biological intelligence. Biological intelligent systems, notably animals such as humans, have many qualities that are often lacking in artificially designed systems including robustness, flexibility, and adaptability to environments. At a point in time where visibility into naturally intelligent systems is exploding thanks to modern brain imaging and recording techniques, our ability to learn from nature and to build biologically inspired intelligent systems has never been greater. At the same time, the growth in computer science and technology has unleashed enough computational power, that an explosion of intelligent applications from augmented reality to naturally speaking intelligent virtual agents is now certain. The growth in these fields challenges the computational replication of all essential aspects of the human mind (the BICA Challenge), an endeavor which is interdisciplinary in nature and promises to yield bi-directional flow of understanding between all involved disciplines.

Call for Papers & Workshops

Deadline for Contributed Paper submissions was April 26th 2024

AGI-24 is, first and foremost, a technical research conference, inviting AI researchers, academics, and industry professionals to submit and present original research papers. 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.

By gathering together active researchers in the field, for presentation of results and discussion of ideas, we accelerate our progress toward our common goal.

Suggested topics include:

AGI Architectures

Autonomy and Creativity​

Benchmarks and Evaluation

AGI Architectures

Cognitive Modeling​

Theoretical Foundation of General Intelligence​

Broader Implications of AGI​

Reinforcement and Learning Theory​

Motivation, Emotion and Affect​

Multi-Agent Interaction and Collaborative Intelligence​

Natural Language Understanding​

Knowledge Representation​

Neural-symbolic AI​

Perception and Perceptual Modeling​

Robotic and Virtual Agent​

Simulation and Evolutionary Computation​

Reasoning, Inference and Planning​

Final deadline for workshop submissions was May 10th 2024

AGI-24 will include a number of workshops, tutorials and software/hardware demos, to be presented on Tuesday, August 13th.

Accepted Workshops:

    • Hands on with OpenCog Hyperon
    • Interpretable Natural Language Processing, Fundamental and Applicable Results
    • Episodic Memory for Motivational Agents
    • NARS Tutorial and Workshop
    • Autonomous Thinking and Reasoning for ML Workflows with AGI

See the Schedule for more details

2024 Prizes

Kurzweil Prize:
Best AGI Paper

$ 1,250USD

Springer Prize:
Best Paper

$ 1,000USD

AGI Society Prize:
Best Paper

$ 1,000USD

OpenCog Foundation:
Best Student Paper

$ 250USD

Keynote speakers

Ben Goertzel

Chairman, AGI Society
CEO, SingularityNET

Geordie Rose

Founder and CEO,
Sanctuary.ai

Gary Marcus

Professor of Psychology and Neural Science,
NY University

François Chollet

Software Engineer, AI Researcher
Senior Staff Engineer, Google

Christof Koch

Neurophysiologist, Computational Neuroscientist, Allen Institute

Rachel St. Clair

CEO & Co-Founder,
Simuli

Joscha Bach

AI Strategist,
Liquid AI

Alex Ororbia
Assistant Professor, RIT, Director, Neural Adaptive Computing (NAC) Laboratory

John Laird

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,University of Michigan

Paul Rosenbloom

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science,
University of Southern California

David Spivak

Senior Scientist and Institute Fellow,
Topos Institute

Josef Urban

Head of AI, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC)

Patrick Hammer

Postdoc Researcher, KTH Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning

David Hanson

Founder and CEO,
Hanson Robotics

Alexey Potapov

Chief AGI Officer,
SingularityNET

Unfortunately due to unexpected travel conflicts, Ray Kurzweil will not be available to provide a Keynote at this year’s event. The organizers celebrate Ray’s new book, The Singularity is Nearer.

AGI-24 is more than
just a conference...

It’s a call to action for collaborative exploration. We’ll delve into effective methodologies for guiding emerging AGI systems, both cognitively and ethically. We’re setting the stage for a comprehensive discourse involving industry, academia, government, and the open-source community.

The Venue

The event will once again be a combination live and virtual event, with live-streaming and YouTube recordings. Authors with accepted contributed papers will have the option to present their papers either in Seattle or remotely.
AGI-24 will be held at The Hub (Husky Union Building) on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle!
Husky Union Buildingâ€Ļ
4001 E Stevens Way NE
â€ĻSeattle, WA 98195

Attendees can book at UW’s Preferred rate at the following 2 nearby hotels.

Guests are welcome to call 866.866.7977 Staypineapple Reservations to secure their guest rooms. Guests should reference the “UW preferred rate” to receive the Group rate.

Reservations may also be made at the links below by entering the group code UWR provided into the promo code field.

There is also a dorm housing option available on campus. This can be booked at the link below.
Important: input “AGI24” in all fields in the Sponsorship contact step.

2024 Sponsors

Dedicated to driving forward research, collaboration, and development to build “thinking machines” – general-purpose systems with intelligence comparable to that of the human mind.

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2024 Media Partners

Twin Protocol

Vancouver
Startup Week

BCCA

Machine Learning Street Talk

About the AGI Society

The Artificial General Intelligence Society is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote the study of artificial general intelligence (AGI), and the design of AGI systems.

The AGI Society has hosted the AGI Conference series since 2008.