AGI Workshop (II) - AGIRI.org & Novamente LLC, Palo Alto, CA - Sept 17, 2006
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 Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Workshop (II) Sponsored by AGIRI.org and Novamente LLC; Sept 17, 2006 in Palo Alto, CA (Crown Plaza) (The First AGI Workshop was held on May 20-21, 2006 in N. Bethesda, MD.) 4 Presentations  1) AGI vs Narrow AI (PowerPoint, Google Video) by Dr. Ben Goertzel  2) Panel: AGI - What are the Risks? (Google Video) - Ari Heljakka(mod), AGIRI.org & Novamente LLC - Christine Peterson, Foresight Nanotech Institute - Michael Anissimov, Lifeboat Foundation - Eliezer Yudkowsky, Singularity Institute - Dr. Ben Goertzel, AGIRI.org & Novamente LLC 3) AGI & The Singularity (PowerPoint) by Ari Heljakka 4) The Novamente AGI Project (PowerPoint) by Dr. Ben Goertzel More AGI videos: - 10m Intro to AGI - 43m AGI and the Singularity - 57m Novamente AGI Project - 82m Ensuring Responsible AGI - 68m Bottlenecks / How Soon to AGI More AGI Links: - What is Artificial General Intelligence? - How important can AGI be to Life Extension and launching a Singularity? - How soon until AI goes beyond human-level intelligence... a poll. - Thoughts on AGI by pioneers... quotes. - List of AGI System-Building Projects. Sponsors  AGIRI's mission is to foster the creation of powerful and ethically positive Artificial General Intelligence.  Novamente is a privately held software company focused on creating a powerful AGI software system, the Novamente AI Engine. Organizers
Jef Allbright, Has more than 25 years in technical and managerial support of scientific instruments in the fields of spectroscopy and microscopy. He recently started a web-based research business and also hosts a popular blog called “Jef's Web Files” Michael Anissimov, Co-founder of the Immortality Institute and fundraising director for the Lifeboat Foundation Paul Baclace, Java developer who co-founded Intelligenesis with Ben to create Webmind in the late 90's. Paul has been involved with Project Xanadu, the Nutch search engine at the Internet Archive, and the Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab. Matt Bamberger, spent the last twenty years developing commercial software at Microsoft and Valve Software. Now exploring AGI at his new company, Intelligent Artifice Forrest Bennett, is an expert in the field of genetic programming where he has co-authored more than 50 peer reviewed papers. Max Comess, Grad student in physics at UC Santa Cruz. Co-founded the Santa Cruz Futurists. Jonathan Foote, Former Senior Research Scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc., his research interests include audio & video analysis and speech recognition Kelly Lenton, Postdoc in the Pediatric Surgery Research Laboratory at Stanford studying craniofacial development. Peter McCluskey, Stock market speculator w/ degrees in Biology & Computer Science Kathryn Myronuk, senior research analyst for Ray Kurzweil's book The Singularity Is Near. She continues to consult for Ray Kurzweil and others. [including a startup making software for large-scale oral history projects. Steve Omohundro, Designed StarLisp at Thinking Machines. Wrote the 3-d graphics in Mathematica. And most recently founded Self-Aware Systems Christine Peterson, Motivated by a desire to further life extension and help Earth's environment, Christine was a founder and is the current Vice President for Public Policy for the Foresight Nanotech Institute David Stern, Founder and President of Ambrosia Microcomputer Products. Member of Board of Directors and Treasurer of Calorie Restriction Society. Melanie Swan, MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is a hedge fund manager, private investor, entrepreneur, futurist and blogger. She is particularly interested in cutting edge technologies in computing, bio and nanotechnology, metaverse worlds and physics and astronomy. Kennita Watson, Alcor member and founder of Cryonics Advocates, Libertarian candidate for California State Board of Equalization, old-school Extropian, and atypical in almost every way! Timothy Wilken, practicing physician, and synergic scientist. His current focus is on understanding human intelligence and genius. He maintains the SynEARTH Network of websites Alexander Ljubimow is Timothy Wilken's son-in-law. He has interest in co-Operation and synergy. He currently works for UBS Wealth Management, and has previous experience with venture capital funding through his work as a financial analyst. Will Wiser, Palo Alto based futurist and life extension consultant, with a strong interest in intelligent systems. Eliezer Yudkowsky, Co-founder and Research Fellow of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence Anne Corwin, Lee Corbin, Tim Freeman, Zeng Zhu, Mark Nuzzolilo, Brad Templeton, Jeff Jones.                       
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