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: 2021-10-18 03:04 pm (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7kbK9m3g-U
Grace Solomonoff https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Grace-Solomonoff mentioned during her discussion that what she was talking about might be helpful for models with "matrix-type or matrix-like connectivity".
It seems that Zoom helps people to stay on time somehow, which was completely evading them in a youtube-only format in the previous days. (And Eray Özkural decided to discuss these things with her.)
Nell Watson - a nice talk on dynamic phenomena, she is trying to derive moral development from that. Interesting observations on moral interactions between superintelligence and people.
Gary Marcus - a nice talk, but he does overstate his case somewhat, as usual. Still it has plenty of useful ideas. https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06177 "The Next Decade in AI: Four Steps Towards Robust Artificial Intelligence". Useful discussion after the talk.
Geordie Rose is a founder and CTO of D-Wave. "Robot Brains". https://www.sanctuary.ai/ Very interesting.
Paul Rosenbloom. "Lumping and Splitting: Understanding Cognition via the Common Model and Dichotomic Maps". (https://cogarch.ict.usc.edu/ Sigma cognitive architecture (formerly involved with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soar_(cognitive_architecture) I have yet to find a cognitive architecture I'd be able to like.)
Josef Urban – "Towards the Dream of Self-Improving Universal Reasoning AI". (Mentions Sam Alexander & Hutter contributed talk, "Reward-Punishment Symmetric Universal Intelligence", https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02450 as an example of a more formal talk.) He hopes for a "QED singularity" coming really soon. The state of things: https://github.com/ai4reason/ATP_Proofs