Here We Come, Seattle!
AGI-22
The 15th Annual AGI Conference
Live & Virtual From Seattle, WA, USA
from 19-22 August 2022
About Event
Four days of exploration into the latest AGI research and innovation.
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 4 workshops where developers and researchers can learn about the newest tools for AGI development.
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Keynote Speakers
Ben Goertzel
CEO, OpenCog Foundation and SingularityNET
A foremost expert in Artificial General Intelligence, and co-creator of the OpenCog AGI framework, with decades of expertise laying the foundations for neural-symbolic cognitive AGI architecture.
Rachel St. Clair
CEO, Simuli
A scientist, entrepreneur, author and founder of Simuli Inc. Her passion and goal is to help build beneficial AGI. Rachel envisions an AGI as a computer system which can outperform human abilities in nearly all tasks while helping humanity avoid existential risks.
Sophia Robot
AGI Ambassador, Global
The world’s first robot citizen and the first robot Innovation Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme.
Sophia is a world famous character, as well as framework for cutting edge robotics, AI and AGI research.
Joscha Bach
Principal AI Engineer, Intel Labs
A cognitive scientist focused on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and learning. Joscha has authored the book “Principles of Synthetic Intelligence”. His focus is how to build machines that can perceive, think and learn.
Gary Marcus
Founder and CEO, Robust.AI
Gary Marcus is a scientist, best-selling author, and entrepreneur. He is Founder and CEO of Robust.AI, and was Founder and CEO of Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company acquired by Uber in 2016.
Charles Simon
Founder & CEO, Future AI
Charles Simon is the CEO of Future AI, and author of Brain Simulator II, a companion book to the Brain Simulator II, a free, open source software project aimed at creating an end-to-end Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) system
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
Play Intro
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
The longest-running legacy of dedicated AGI research
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.
By gathering together active researchers in the field, for presentation of results and discussion of ideas, we accelerate our progress toward our common goal.
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
- Friday, Aug 19
- Saturday, Aug 20
- Sunday, Aug 21
- Monday, Aug 22
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
Technical Keynotes & Presentations
Technical Keynotes:
9:00 AM – Ben Goertzel “Conference Opening & Considering the Open Ended Motivations for AGI”
10:00 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, 11:15AM
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 Etical Machine Creativity” – 11:15 AM
Moderator: Janet Adams
Panel Speakers: Ben Goertzel, Kyrtin Atreides, Deborah Duong
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
Technical Keynotes & Presentations
Technical Keynotes:
9:00 AM – Rachel St. Clair “Resource Management in AGI Systems”
11:05 AM – Chris Poulin & Phil Tabor, “Open Source Deep Reinforcement Learning: Deep Dive”
11:35 AM – Demo: Dzvinka Yarish, “Demo of Open Source DRLearner Tool”
1: 25 PM – Fireside Chat “Overcoming the Obstacles Between Here and AGI”
with Gary Marcus & Ben Goertzel
Contributed Paper Presentations
Session 05, 10:00AM
Session 06, 1:50 PM
Session 07, 3:10 PM
Session 08, 4:15 PM
Lobby Poster Presentations
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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