AGI-08 Conference

Papers linked. Adding videos and transcripts. Last updated Apr. 30, 2008

Introduction

video / transcript - Review of Past and Present AGI Research - Ben Goertzel

Overview of AGI Research

video - Seven Principles of Synthetic Intelligence - Joscha Bach

video - Four Paths to AI - Jonathan Connell, Kenneth Livingston

video - Cognitive Architectures: Where Do We Go From Here? - Wlodzislaw Duch, Richard Oentaryo, Michel Pasquier

video / transcript - What Do You Mean by “AI”? - Pei Wang

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Panel: Joscha Bach, Jonathan Connell, Pei Wang, Wlodzislaw Duch, session chair: Eric Baum

Architecture of AGI Systems

video - Governing Lethal Behavior: Embedding Ethics in a Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Robot Architecture - Ronald Arkin

video - LIDA and a Theory of Mind - David Friedlander, Stan Franklin

video - Learning from Inconsistencies in an Integrated Cognitive Architecture - Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Peter Geibel, Helmar Gust, Ulf Krumnack, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Angela Schwering, Tonio Wandmacher

video - Extending the Soar Cognitive Architecture - John Laird

video - OSCAR: An Architecture for Generally Intelligent Agents - John Pollock

video - Cognitive Constructor: An Intelligent Tutoring System Based on a Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture (BICA) - Alexei V. Samsonovich, Kenneth A. de Jong, Anastasia Kitsantas, Erin E. Peters, Nada Dabbagh, M. Layne Kalbfleisch

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Panel: Alexei V. Samsonovich, Ronald Arkin, David Friedlander, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, John Pollock, John Laird, session chair: Sam S. Adams

Language and Cognition

Language Processing in Human Brain - Alexander Borzenko

video - A Cognitive Substrate for Natural Language Understanding - Nicholas L. Cassimatis, Arthi Murugesan, Magdalena D. Bugajska

video - Anticipative Coordinated Cognitive Processes for Interactivist and Piagetian Theories - Jean-Charles Quinton, Jean-Christophe Buisson, Filipo Perotto

Using Decision Trees to Model an Emotional Attention Mechanism - Saman Harati Zadeh, Saeed Bagheri Shouraki, Ramin Halavati

video - Natural Language Approach of the Texai Project - Stephen L. Reed

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Panel: Jean-Charles Quinton, Arthi Murugesan, session chair: Stephen Reed

Poster Session [Session Co-chairs: Lee McCauley & Sidney D'Mello]

• Reasoning with Prioritized Data by Aggregation of Distance Functions - Ofer Arieli
• Distance-Based Non-Deterministic Semantics - Ofer Arieli, Anna Zamansky
• Fusing Animals and Humans - Jonathan Connell
• Variac: an Autogenous Cognitive Architecture - J. Storrs Hall
• Artificial General Intelligence via Finite Covering with Learning - Yong Hwang, Samuel Hwang, David Hwang
• Cognitive Primitives for Automated Learning - Sudharsan Iyengar
• Essential Phenomena of General Intelligence - Marc Pickett, Don Miner, Tim Oates
• Analogy as Integrating Framework for Human-Level Reasoning - Angela Schwering, Ulf Krumnack, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, Helmar Gust
• Designing Knowledge Based Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems - Karan Sharma
• Artificial General Intelligence: An Organism and Level Based Position Statement - Leslie Smith
• Real-time Machine Deduction and AGI - Peter Tripodes
• Text Disambiguation by Educable AI System - Alexander Voskresenskij

Reasoning

video - Probabilistic Quantifier Logic for General Intelligence: An Indefinite Probabilities Approach - Matthew Ikle, Ben Goertzel

video - Comirit: Commonsense Reasoning by Integrating Simulation and Logic - Benjamin Johnston, Mary-Anne Williams

Hybrid Reasoning and the Future of Iconic Representations - Catherine Recanati

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Panel: Catherine Recanati, Matthew Ikle, Benjamin Johnston, session chair: Steve Omohundro

Learning

video - Participating in Cognition: The Interactive Search Optimization Algorithm - Nadav Abkasis, Israel Gottlieb, Eliraz Itzchaki

video - Adversarial Sequence Prediction - Bill Hibbard

video - Artificial General Intelligence through Large-Scale, Multimodal Bayesian Learning - Brian Milch

video - A Computational Approximation to the AIXI Model - Sergey Pankov

video - Transfer Learning and Intelligence: an Argument and Approach - Matthew Taylor, Gregory Kuhlmann, Peter Stone

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Panel: Brian Milch, Matthew Taylor, Israel Gottlieb, Bill Hibbard, Sergey Pankov, session chair: J. Storrs Hall

Virtually Embodied AI

video - Toward Cognitively Robust Synthetic Characters in Digital Environments - Selmer Bringsjord, Andrew Shilliday, Micah Clark, Dan Werner, Joshua Taylor, Alexander Bringsjord, Ed Charpentier

video - An Integrative Methodology for Teaching Embodied Non-Linguistic Agents, Applied to Virtual Animals in Second Life - Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin, Nil Geissweiller, Moshe Looks, Andre Senna, Welter Silva, Ari Heljakka, Carlos Lopes

video - Temporal Action Logic for Question Answering in an Adventure Game - Martin Magnusson, Patrick Doherty

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Panel: Ben Goertzel, Andrew Shilliday, Martin Magnusson, session chair: Sibley Verbek

Catalyzing the Coming AGI Renaissance

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Panel: Pei Wang Ben Goertzel, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, session chair: Stan Franklin

Neural Network and Brain Modeling [Session Chair: Randal Koene]

Input Feedback Networks: Classification and Inference Based on Network Structure - Tsvi Achler, Eyal Amir

video - The China-Brain Project: Building China’s Artificial Brain Using An Evolved Neural Net Module Approach - Hugo de Garis, Tang Jian Yu, Huang Zhiyong, Bai Lu, Chen Cong, Chen Shuo, Guo Junfei, Tan Xianjin, Tian Hao, Tian Xiaohan, Wu Xianjian, Xiong Ye, Yu Xiangqian, Huang Di

video - How Might Probabilistic Reasoning Emerge from the Brain? - Ben Goertzel, Cassio Pennachin

Vector Symbolic Architectures: A New Building Material for Artificial General Intelligence - Simon Levy, Ross Gayler

Panel: Future Directions for AGI Research [Chair: Ben Goertzel]

• Post-Conference Workshop