AGI-21: Oct 15-18, 2021
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dmmagi-conference.org/
(Registration for online participation is free; a small fee if one wants to do it in person.)
This is not a "first-tier" AI conference, but this year has a larger number of interesting "external" keynote speakers than usual (perhaps, people are starting to feel that "artificial general intelligence" is no longer a far-in-the-future remote topic, but something becoming acutely relevant): Yoshua Bengio, Francois Chollet, Tomas Mikolov, Joseph Urban.
(Registration for online participation is free; a small fee if one wants to do it in person.)
This is not a "first-tier" AI conference, but this year has a larger number of interesting "external" keynote speakers than usual (perhaps, people are starting to feel that "artificial general intelligence" is no longer a far-in-the-future remote topic, but something becoming acutely relevant): Yoshua Bengio, Francois Chollet, Tomas Mikolov, Joseph Urban.
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Date: 2021-10-15 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-10-15 02:28 pm (UTC)2018 - Joseph Urban, 2016 - Stephen Grossberg, 2015 - Frank Wood and Jurgen Schmidhuber (yes, that was a good year), 2014 - Yoshua Bengio (that was the year when his group invented modern "attention"), 2013 - Dileep George, 2012 - Nick Bostrom (as a host, in some sense; I attended that one), 2011 - Jurgen Schmidhuber, Ed Boyden (I attended that one, Schmidhuber is not listed as a keynote speaker, but I remember his keynote very well), 2010 - Richard Sutton, 2009 - Jurgen Schmidhuber.
So, yes, we see that Schmidhuber is the optimist, and that Yoshua Bengio and Joseph Urban are also return speakers.
And yes, the period between 2017 and 2020 does look like a crisis (the mainstream AI development is so interesting and the progress there is so decisive during those years that people don't pay much attention to AGI; now the mainstream AI development has finally reached the point where it seems quite realistic that it can lead to AGI sometime soon).