Hi, Just wanted to remind you that the AGI-12 and AGI-Impacts confernces are coming up soon!
The 5th Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-12) & the Conference on the Impacts and Risks of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-Impacts), 7-11 December 2012 at Oxford University in the UK The AGI conferences are the only conference series devoted to the creation of thinking machines at the human level and beyond. AGI-12 consists of scientific talks covering theoretical aspects of AGI, and reports on current developments towards AGI systems. A full schedule is now online, see http://agi-conference.org/2012/schedule/ AGI-Impacts, following AGI-12, will be devoted to rigorous discussion of the potential future risks, benefits and societal impacts of AGI technology; see http://www.winterintelligence.org/#calendar Keynote speakers for the two conferences include: Margaret Boden -- Author of Mind as Machine, founding Dean of the University of Sussex's School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences. David Hanson -- President and Founder of Hanson Robotics, creators of Hanson Robokind. Angelo Cangelosi -- Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognition at the University of Plymouth, leading expert in developmental robotics Nick Bostrom -- Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, 2009 winner of the Gannon Award for the Continued Pursuit of Human Advancement Bruce Schneier -- World-leading expert on computer security, cryptography and their implications for real world engineering. Steve Omohundro -- Founder of Self-Aware Systems, leading expert in machine learning, machine vision, programming languages. For registration (for one or both events), and accommodation at St. Anne's College, please see: http://www.winterintelligence.org/travel-and-registration/ For any queries please contact: [email protected] http://www.winterintelligence.org/ -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
