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Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to the next weekly seminar in our interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition (ECCO) and the Global Brain Institute (GBI). Time: Friday, December 14th, 14:00-16:00 p.m Place: Room 3B217 (building B, level 3, From the elevator take the long corridor to the right, to its end), on the VUB Campus Etterbeek (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels), Free entrance: everybody welcome! ________________________________ General Artificial Intelligence and the Global Brain Ben Goertzel Abstract: At first glance, the emergence of a Global Brain and the engineering of advanced Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems might seem to be two orthogonal approaches to the origination of intelligence beyond the human level. But closer inspection reveals great synergetic potential. An AGI or community thereof, studying content and activity on the Internet, could serve as the "central conscious theater" of a distributed global brain, allowing a global brain with a more unified and explicitly goal-directed form of cognition. This would also benefit the AGI, allowing it to increase its own intelligence via leveraging its interactions with the content, software and humans on the Net. Existing proto-AGI architectures such as OpenCog (http://opencog.org) may have potential for use in this sort of way. Eventually such an AGI could serve as a sort of "global AI nanny", helping society to monitor its own behavior with global safety in mind (although, the caveats as well as the benefits of this sort of application are clear). ________________________________ Forthcoming ECCO/GBI seminars Winter 2012-2013 December 17 (Monday) Johan Bollen (Indiana University) Modeling collective mood states from large-scale social media data More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) ECCO/GBI Seminar Coordinator Email: [email protected] http://clea.academia.edu/DavidWeinbaum -- 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-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
