AGI-21: Oct 15-18, 2021
Oct. 15th, 2021 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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: 2021-10-17 05:49 pm (UTC)(Interesting, difficult; he thinks language is helping to reason "out of distribution"; but then I would say that Transformers might already have this capability (not even a surprise, the only question is whether attention use there is enough for "consciousness", or not quite).)
I really need to listen to this once again.
Discussion between Ben and Yoshua is interesting :-)