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The term Artificial Intelligence was first used in 1955 by John McCarthy to propose the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. In recognition of the 50th anniversary of AI, the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI) hosted its first workshop May 20-21, 2006.
Exclusive Sponsor: Novamente LLC
AGIRI Workshop 2006
Theme: Transitioning from Narrow AI to Artificial General Intelligence
Focus: Grounding Linguistic Relationships in Nonlinguistic Reality
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The field of AI is poised to make a transition from a focus on highly specialized "narrow AI" problem solving systems to confronting the more difficult issues of "human level intelligence" and more broadly "artificial general intelligence."
This workshop will focus on AGI issues in general, with a non-exclusive focus on the theme of grounding linguistic relationships in nonlinguistic reality.
Speakers will comprise individuals actively involved with the design and/or implementation of AGI systems. Additional speakers will provide insight into relevant aspects of AGI theory and application. The event will be filmed and selective proceedings published (detailed publication plans TBA).
Intro & Keynote (Sat. 8 AM - May 20)
Session I: AGI Background
Speakers address important conceptual, scientific and engineering issues related to AGI and the conference theme.
Session II: Contemporary AGI Projects (Sat. PM - May 20)
Speakers review their AGI projects (where relevant including a brief discussion of how their AGI systems deal with the focus issue of grounding linguistic relationships in nonlinguistic reality).
- Dr. Hugo de Garis, Computer Science Department, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA. International School of Software, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province.
 Building an Artificial Brain for Less Than $10,000
 Paper: Artificial Brains. An Inexpensive Method for Accelerating the Evolution of Neural Network Modules for Building Artificial Brains
Paper: How Do We More Greatly Ensure Responsible AGI?
Paper: Panel Discussion: What are the bottlenecks, and how soon to AGI?
- Sam S. Adams, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Research
Superstition and Forgetfulness: Essential Attributes of General Intelligence
Paper: Panel Discussion: What are the bottlenecks, and how soon to AGI?
- Dr. Eric Baum, author of What Is Thought?
A Model of Thought and Implications for AGI
Paper: A Working Hypothesis for General Intelligence
Paper: Panel Discussion: What are the bottlenecks, and how soon to AGI?
- Dr. Pei Wang, Temple University
 From NARS to a Thinking Machine
Paper: Introduction: Aspects of Artificial General Intelligence
Paper: Four Contemporary AGI Designs: a Comparative Treatment
Paper: From NARS to a Thinking Machine
Paper: Panel Discussion: What are the bottlenecks, and how soon to AGI?
- Dr. Nick Cassimatis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
A Cognitive Substrate for Human-Level Intelligence
Paper: Adaptive Algorithmic Hybrids for Human-Level Artificial Intelligence
- Steve Grand, Founder, Cyberlife Research Ltd
Machines like us
Paper: Panel Discussion: What are the bottlenecks, and how soon to AGI?
- Dr. Ben Goertzel, Founder, CEO/CSO, Novamente LLC
Novamente: A Practical Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence
Paper: Introduction: Aspects of Artificial General Intelligence
Paper: Four Contemporary AGI Designs: a Comparative Treatment
Paper: Stages of Cognitive Development in Uncertain-Logic-Based AI Systems
Paper: Indefinite Probabilities for General Intelligence
Paper: Virtual Easter Egg Hunting: A Thought-Experiment in Embodied Social Learning, Cognitive Process Integration, and the Dynamic Emergence of the Self
Paper: Probabilistic Logic Based Reinforcement Learning of Simple Embodied Behaviors in a 3D Simulation World
Paper: Panel Discussion: What are the bottlenecks, and how soon to AGI?
Session III: AGI and Applied Computational Linguistics (Sun. 9 AM - May 21)
Speakers address what current computational linguistics methods can do, and where they fall short due to their lack of general contextual understanding.
- Dr. Karl H. Pribram, Distinguished Research Professor, George Mason University, School of Computational Sciences
Neural Networks or Neural Webs?
Paper: How Do We More Greatly Ensure Responsible AGI?
- Michael Ross, Science Applications International Corporation
Mining Semantic Information From Unstructured Data
- Dr. Deborah Duong, - Virginia Tech, Applied Research Laboratory for National and Homeland Security
Houses of Mirrors: Deeply Adaptive Designs for Machine Cognition
- Dr. Alexei V Samsonovich, - Virginia Tech, Applied Research Laboratory for National and Homeland Security
Self-organizing Linguistic Cognitive Maps as a Key to the Human Value and Semantic Memory Systems
Paper: Four Contemporary AGI Designs: a Comparative Treatment
Paper: Cognitive Map Dimensions of the Human Value System Extracted from Natural Language
- Dr. Thomas Rindflesch, National Library of Medicine
Knowledge-Based Semantic Interpretation for Summarizing Biomedical Text
- Dr. Ben Goertzel & Izabela Lyon Freire Goertzel, Novamente LLC & BioMind LLC
Using Dependency Parsing and Probabilistic Inference to Extract Gene/Protein Interactions Implicit in the Combination of Multiple Biomedical Research Topics
Paper: Indefinite Probabilities for General Intelligence
Paper: Probabilistic Logic Based Reinforcement Learning of Simple Embodied Behaviors in a 3D Simulation World
- Moshe Looks, Washington University in St. Louis and Novamente LLC
Contemporary Approaches to Symbol Grounding
Paper: Program Evolution for General Intelligence
- Ari Heljakka, GenMind Ltd. and Novamente LLC
Learning Symbol Groundings via Simulated Robotics
Paper: Probabilistic Logic Based Reinforcement Learning of Simple Embodied Behaviors in a 3D Simulation World
Paper: How Do We More Greatly Ensure Responsible AGI?
- William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D., The National Science Foundation (NSF)
About The National Science Foundation (NSF)
Session IV: Panel Discussions (PM - May 21)
Discussions on particular issues related to AGI and grounding linguistic relationships in nonlinguistic reality
Panel II - 2:40-3:40 PM = How do we more greatly ensure responsible AGI?
Participants: Eiezer Yudkowsky, Jeff Medina, Dr. Karl H. Pribram, Ari Heljakka, Dr. Hugo de Garis (Mod: Stephan Vladimir Bugaj)
VIDEO: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5060147993569028388
Panel III: 4-6 PM = What are the bottlenecks, and how soon to AGI?
Participants: Dr. Stan Franklin, Dr. Hugo de Garis, Sam S. Adams , Dr. Eric Baum, Dr. Pei Wang, Steve Grand, Dr. Ben Goertzel (Mod: Dr. Phil Goetz)
VIDEO: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7625399529322949316
Virtual Workshop (Ongoing)
Speakers describing their AGI projects are encouraged to complete the following questionnaire for publication to the Online AGIRI Workshop Forum.
- What is the end goal of the project?
- What milestones are expected to be achieved along the way?
- Roughly how much effort is expected to be required to bring the project to the point of roughly "human level" intelligence?
- What are the largest obstacles expected to be confronted along the path?
- Roughly how much computing resources are expected to be required?
- How is knowledge intended to be represented in the AGI system?
- How is learning intended to be accomplished in the AGI system?
- How is logical reasoning intended to be accomplished?
- How is perception intended to be accomplished?
- How is the control of motor systems intended to be accomplished?
- How is human language understanding intended to be accomplished?
- How is human language generation intended to be accomplished?
- How is self-modification of the system's own source code intended to be accomplished (if at all)?
- How, if at all, would one go about trying to impose a particular human-determined goal system on an instance of the AGI system?
- What (if any) practical applications do you think will be enabled by your system at an intermediary stage, before it has achieved human-level AGI?
  
Two Full Days: Sat-Sun, May 20-21, 2006
Attendance: $600 for both days (or $350 for one day). Lunch served, no other accommodations. To maintain focus, overall attendance is limited to less than 45 individuals. The event will be filmed and selective proceedings published (detailed publication plans TBA). Please contact us (below) before attending.
NOTE: EVENT HAS ALREADY TAKEN PLACE
Hotel/Location:
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center
5701 Marinelli Road
North Bethesda, Maryland 20852 USA
Phone: 1-800-859-8003
There are a limited number of reserved Marriott guest rooms ($159) available. Please ask for them under the "AGIRI Workshop" name.
If the Marriott is booked, there are two other suggested hotels located 1.2 miles north... Doubletree ($129) and Ramada Inn ($139). To reserve your room, please try: http://www.orbitz.com then click: "Hotels", click: "Search by address", enter: 5701 Marinelli Rd N. Bethesda, MD 20852, click: "Check-in" May 19, click: "Check-out" May 22, then click: "Find".
Important Links:
Main Workshop Website: http://www.agiri.org/workshop
Directions/Hotel: http://www.agiri.org/directions.htm
Workshop Schedule: http://www.agiri.org/schedule.htm
Printable Version / Handout: http://www.agiri.org/workshop/AGIRI_Workshop_2006.pdf
AGIRI Workshop Organizing Committee:
Dr. Ben Goertzel - ben at novamente.net
Dr. Phil Goetz - philgoetz at gmail.com
Bruce Klein - bruce at novamente.net
Dr. Pei Wang - dr.peiwang at gmail.com
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AGIRI Workshop - DC, May 20-21, 2006, In N. Bethesda, MD (10miles North of DC)
