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Session I: AGI Background (AM - May 20)
Speakers address important conceptual, scientific and engineering issues related to AGI and the conference theme
Cassio Pennachin, VettaLabs and Novamente LLC
Frontiers of Evolutionary Learning
Dr. Matthew Ikle', Adams State College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Imprecise Probabilities and Their Role in General Intelligence
David Hart, Atlantis Blue
Distributed Processing and Large-Scale System Engineering for AGI
Richard Loosemore (former Director of Research at Starbridge Systems)
Complexity Science and Its Implications for AGI
Jeff Medina, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence; Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies; School of Philosophy, University of London
The Ethics of Creating AGI
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence;
AI as a Precise Art
Stephan Vladimir Bugaj, co-author of The Path to Posthumanity
Steps Toward a Developmental Psychology for AGI's
Session II: Contemporary AGI Projects (PM - May 20)
Speakers review their AGI projects (where relevant including a brief discussion of how their AGI systems deal with the focus issue of grounding linguistic relationships in nonlinguistic reality).
Dr. Nick Cassimatis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Attention Machines for Robust Intelligence
Dr. Paul Bello, Air Force Research Laboratories and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title TBA
Dr. Sam S. Adams, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Research
Title TBA
Dr. Pei Wang, Temple University
From NARS to a Thinking Machine
Dr. Ben Goertzel, Founder, CEO/CSO, Novamente LLC
The Novamente AGI Project
*This session is still being expanded: watch this space for more
Session III: AGI and Applied Computational Linguistics (AM - May 21)
Speakers address what current computational linguistics methods can do, and where they fall short due to their lack of general contextual understanding.
Michael Ross, Science Applications International Corporation
New Techniques for Natural Language Relationship Extraction
Dr. Deborah Duong, Virginia Tech, Applied Research Laboratory for National and Homeland Security
Title TBA
Dr. Thomas Rindflesch, National Library of Medicine
Title TBA
Bruce Klein, Pres. Novamente LLC and Founder, Immortality Institute
Benefits of Biomedical Text Mining for Life Extension Research
Moshe Looks, Washington University in St. Louis and Novamente LLC
Contemporary Approaches to Symbol Grounding
Ari Heljakka, GenMind Corp. and Novamente LLC
Learning Symbol Groundings via Simulated Robotics
Session IV: Panel Discussions (PM - May 21)
Discussions on particular issues related to AGI and grounding linguistic relationships in nonlinguistic reality
