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Aug 22-25, 2018
AGI is part of HLAI conference this year, get your tickets here
Continuing the mission of the past AGI conferences, AGI-18 gathers an international group of leading academic and industry researchers involved in scientific and engineering work aimed directly toward the goal of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
AGI-18 will be hosted in Prague, Czech Republic.
The AGI conferences, since the first one way back in 2006, have been organized by the Artificial General Intelligence Society, in cooperation with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). The proceedings of AGI-18 will be published as a book in Springer’s Lecture Notes in AI series, and all the accepted papers will be available online.
AGI-18 will be held as part of a larger event — Human-Level AI: The Joint Multiconference on Human-Level Intelligence. This means AGI attendees will also get to take part in the BICA (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures) and NeSY (Neural-Symbolic AI) events, and joint workshops on the Future of AI, Social and Ethical Implications of AI, and Investing in AI.
“Artificial General Intelligence”
To understand the meaning and importance of the AGI conference series, recall that the original goal of the AI field, when it was founded in the middle of the previous century, was the construction of “thinking machines” – computer systems with human-like general intelligence. Due to the difficulty of this task, for the last few decades the majority of AI researchers have focused on what has been called “narrow AI” – the production of AI systems displaying intelligence regarding specific, highly constrained tasks.
In recent years, however, more and more researchers have recognized the necessity – and feasibility – of returning to the original goals of the field by treating intelligence as a whole. Increasingly, there is a call for a transition back to confronting the more difficult issues of “human-level intelligence” and more broadly artificial general intelligence. AGI research differs from the ordinary AI research by stressing on the versatility and wholeness of intelligence, and by carrying out the engineering practice according to an outline of a system comparable to the human mind in a certain sense.
The AGI conference series has played, and continues to play, a significant role in this resurgence of research on artificial intelligence in the deeper, original sense of the term of “artificial intelligence”. The conferences encourage interdisciplinary research based on different understandings of intelligence, and exploring different approaches. As the AI field becomes increasingly commercialized and well accepted, maintaining and emphasizing a coherent focus on the AGI goals at the heart of the field remains more critical than ever.