AGI 2024
The 17th Annual
AGI Conference
LIVE & VIRTUAL FROM SEATTLE, WA, USA
August 13 – 16, 2024
The Foremost Conference Dedicated Entirely
To The Latest AGI Research
There is a growing recognition, in the AI field and beyond that the threshold of achieving AGI — where machine intelligence matches or even surpasses human intelligence — is within our near-term reach.
This increases the importance of building our fundamental understanding of what AGI is and can be, and what are the various routes for getting there.
- What kinds of AGI systems may be feasible to create in the near term, with what relative strengths and weaknesses?
- What are the biggest unsolved problems we need to resolve to get to human-level AGI?
- What are the right ways to measure the capabilities of AI systems as they approach and then exceed human-level AGI?
- What are the most feasible methodologies to provide emerging AGI systems with guidance, both cognitively and ethically, as they develop?
- How should we think about the roles of industry, government, academia and the open source community in the next stages of development toward AGI?
- How will the advent of AGI alter the fabric of society, our jobs, and our daily lives?
There has never been a better time for us to develop a deeper understanding of AGI and its accelerating arrival, as well as take a look at the landscape of potential AGI architectures, AI modalities, and the potential developmental directions we can take toward AGI.
The AGI Conference series is the oldest and longest running conference series specifically focused on research and achievements related to general machine intelligence.
The series provides a unique platform for discussion and exploration in this field, and this year’s conference, AGI-24, will be highlighting and featuring AI groundbreaking research on the frontiers of this rapidly accelerating technology.
Join us in exploring the near-term possibilities of AGI systems, and the unsolved puzzles on the road to achieving human-level intelligence. Engage in thought-provoking discussions about measuring AI capabilities as they evolve and potentially surpass human intellect. And take the opportunity to network and make new connections within this advanced community of innovators.
CALL FOR: Papers
Final deadline for submitting papers: April 12th 2024
Announcement – Deadline Extension to April 26th, 2024
Interest and research in AGI is surging; due to the record level of interest in this years conference, the AGI Society is happy to extend the Paper Submission dealing by 2 weeks, to 26 April 2024, to enable participation from the widest range of contributors possible.
AGI-24 invites you, the AI researcher, academic, and industry professional to submit your original research papers to our 2024 conference.
The AGI conference series is the only major conference series devoted wholly and specifically to the creation of AI systems possessing general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond.
By gathering together active researchers in the field, for presentation of results and discussion of ideas, we accelerate our progress toward our common goal.
We welcome contributed papers on all aspects of AGI research and development. The conference will embrace different interpretations of “AGI”, and welcome submissions that do not only address specific problems.
Papers must be written in either LaTeX (preferred) or Word. Author guidelines and templates can be downloaded here.
Two types of papers will be accepted (in EasyChair):
· Regular papers, with a length limit of 10 pages (including references), presenting new research results or rigorously describing new research ideas.
· Short technical communications, with a limit of 4 pages (including references), summarizing results and ideas of interest to the AGI audience, including reports about recent publications, position papers, and preliminary results.
Appropriate topics for contributed papers include, but are not restricted to:
- AGI Architectures
- Autonomy and Creativity
- Benchmarks and Evaluation
- Cognitive Modeling
- Multi-Agent Interaction and Collaborative Intelligence
- Theoretical Foundation of General Intelligence
- Broader Implications of AGI
- Knowledge Representation
- Reinforcement and Learning Theory
- Motivation, Emotion and Affect
- Natural Language Understanding
- Neural-symbolic AI
- Perception and Perceptual Modeling
- Reasoning, Inference and Planning
- Robotic and Virtual Agent
- Simulation and Evolutionary Computation
Please submit your papers in EasyChair here.
| Deadline Extension to April 26th, 2024 |
2024 Prizes
$ 1,250 USD
Kurzweil Prize –
Best AGI Paper
€ 1,000 EURO
Springer Prize –
Best Paper
$ 1,000 USD
AGI Society Prize –
Best AGI Idea
$ 250 USD
OpenCog Foundation – Best Student Paper
CALL FOR: Workshops, Tutorials And Demos:
Final deadline for submitting workshops & demos: May 10th 2024
(extended deadline)
AGI 24 is thrilled to include a number of workshops, tutorials, and software/hardware demos which provide an exciting opportunity for researchers and innovators in the field of Artificial General Intelligence to showcase cutting-edge research through live demonstration at Seattle, WA.
Workshops, tutorials, and demos are open to everyone who has registered for AGI 24. To be considered for the workshop, tutorial, or demo, please send a proposal via email. Be sure the proposal meets the requirements and includes all the listed items.
To submit proposals for workshops, tutorials or demos include the following information in an email to agiconference@singularitynet.io.
Proposal requirements:
The proposal should be up to 2 pages in length and include the following:
- Presenter’s names and affiliation
- Title
- Description: you should describe what would you like to show with as much details as possible.
- Demo Images: photographs if hardware or screenshots if software presentations.
- AGI relevance: Include in your proposal a short single paragraph describing how does your work relate to the overarching goal of Artificial General Intelligence.
- Each presenter must be registered in AGI 24 conference.
Resources:
- Dedicated room of size X-by-Y
- Table
- 120V AC power outlet
- High Speed Wi-Fi
- Ask for additional resources if needed.
Key Dates:
Submission of workshop & tutorial proposals: May 10
Notification of acceptance of workshop & tutorial proposals: May 17
Keynote Speakers
Ben Goertzel
Chairman, AGI Society
CEO, SingularityNET
Geordie Rose
Founder and CEO,
Sanctuary.ai
Gary Marcus
Professor of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University
Paul Rosenbloom
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science,
University of Southern California
Josef Urban
Head of AI, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC)
Ray Kurzweil
CEO and Owner, Kurzweil Technologies
Director of Engineering, Google
John Laird
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
Rachel St. Clair
CEO
Simuli
Alex Ororbia
Assistant Professor, RIT,
Director, Neural Adaptive Computing (NAC) Laboratory
Alexey Potapov
Chief AGI Officer,
SingularityNET
David Hanson
Founder and CEO,
Hanson Robotics
François Chollet
Software Engineer, AI Researcher
Senior Staff Engineer, Google
Joscha Bach
AI Strategist,
Liquid AI
Christof Koch
Neurophysiologist, Computational Neuroscientist, Allen Institute
David Spivak
Senior Scientist and Institute Fellow,
Topos Institute
Patrick Hammer
Postdoc Researcher, KTH Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning
AGI-24 is more than just a conference –
…it’s a call to action for collaborative exploration. We’ll delve into effective methodologies for guiding emerging AGI systems, both cognitively and ethically. We’re setting the stage for a comprehensive discourse involving industry, academia, government, and the open-source community.
AGI-24 VENUE
The event will once again be a combination live and virtual event, with live-streaming and YouTube recordings. Authors with accepted contributed papers will have the option to present their papers either in Seattle or remotely.
AGI-24 will be held at The Hub (Husky Union Building) on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle!
Husky Union Building
4001 E Stevens Way NE
Seattle, WA 98195
How to get there: link to map
There will be dorm housing options on campus for attendees – details TBA.
2024 Sponsors
Event Organizer – AGI Society
Dedicated to driving forward research, collaboration, and development to build “thinking machines” – general-purpose systems with intelligence comparable to that of the human mind.
Co-Organizer,
Livestream Sponsor
Event
Sponsor
Location Host
Proceedings Publisher
