Can't track down anything on that from the conference page.  I did come
upon this not bad parallel AGI forum:

http://nz.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/173rls/computation_beyond_turing_by_jeff_hawkins/
http://nz.reddit.com/r/artificial/


On 29 July 2013 17:17, Piaget Modeler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Quoting Jeff Hawkins, AAAI-13 workshop.   July 15, 2013.
>
> ~PM
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:34:30 +0100
> Subject: Re: [agi] A Very Simple AGI Project
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
>
> Some have said that representation is the only problem of AI.
>
> ~PM
>
> Care to expand a little? I guess, off the top of my head, I can partly
> agree - actually creative problemsolving is what AGI is about. But you need
> a creative form/medium of representation to do that. And that medium is
> concepts - eg GO TO THE KITCHEN  - narrow AI (the whole of present AI)
> can't do concepts.
>
>
> On 29 July 2013 01:46, Piaget Modeler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Some have said that representation is the only problem of AI.
>
> ~PM
>
> ------------------------------
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [agi] A Very Simple AGI Project
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:07:17 -0400
>
> One of the interesting but disappointing things about groups like this is
> that there is pretty serious lack of insightful criticism and comment.
> Part of that, of course, is just based on simple lack of understanding, but
> most of it seems based on total disbelief that the premises of the
> approaches that have been talked about are being taken seriously.  I really
> cannot understand how anyone can take AIXI seriously and I cannot
> understand how someone can take the neuroscience approach seriously.  It
> would be as if I were to say that I am working on an AGI program that is
> based on a polynomial time solution to Boolean SAT (which I will one day
> solve.)  I mean, can you take something like that seriously without first
> seeing the polynomial time solution (or an amazing AGI program which was
> based on it)?  There is nothing wrong with looking at these ideas and
> seeing how far you can go with them, but I think there is a lot wrong
> with believing that one of these methods are currently viable. Using
> Bayesian methods, compression methods and information theory, trying to
> create algorithms that emulate observed and theoretical neural processes,
> and trying to come up with creative logical methods all make perfect sense
> to me.  I just think that the fringe science that is based on taking some
> sound methods to an absurd theoretical extreme looks like a pretty terrible
> place to start.
>
> I went through some severe cold feet with my own would-be AGI project.
> The massive inefficiency of a practical method of representing the
> possibilities is really unacceptable. I just could not get myself going
> with such inept representational methods that we seem to be stuck with.
> However, after going through a couple of days of talking myself into
> acceptance I finally came up with an elementary system that would create
> some efficiencies without making the look-ups too deep.  I am thinking of
> the problem of initial recognition but it is the same through out all the
> stages of analysis and response.  I am just going to come up with a simple
> intuitive method to reduce the grossest inefficiencies that a simpler
> implementation of my ideas would create.
>
> I thought about using numerous Neural Networks or a Bayesian Networks for
> the initial recognition lookup problem, but then I started wondering about
> a more definitive network that would use a few of the characteristics of
> the neural network (it would become more extensive to represent more inputs
> or to be more precise in determining the outputs for a particular kind of
> input) but it would also have the characteristics of the network that
> I have been thinking of (it might utilize a greater variety of specific
> markers to represent syntactic characteristics of input and output, it
> could use reason based reasoning and so on. The only problem with this plan
> is that I haven't figured it out yet.  The whole project is supposed to
> help me discover how I might create such a thing, so I really don't know if
> I could start the project with it. I might try a simplified version of it.
> I might use weighted evaluations but they could, for example, be used to
> represent approximations to multiple output values (representing  indexes
> to data).  It would not be a conventional Neural or Bayesian Network.  For
> example, it could be designed to represent approximations to values in some
> non-conventional ways.  This is an interesting idea. I have to think about
> it for a few days.
>
> Jim Bromer
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