tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18415712.post-1134492011810049332005-12-13T08:30:00.000-08:002005-12-13T08:46:20.900-08:00It is interesting to see that the academic AI community is finally, slowly, waking up to the notion that artificial general intelligence is valuable and viable and worth thinking seriously about.<br /><br />For instance, in Vancouver in 2006, at this conference<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wcci2006.org/">http://www.wcci2006.org/</a><br /><br />there will be a panel session called “A Roadmap to Human-Level Intelligence” at which I among other AGI-oriented AI researchers will be presenting.<br /><br />To quote the conference website:<br /><br /><strong><em>Panelists</em></strong><br /><em></em><br /><em>James Anderson (Brown University)</em><br /><em>Nick Cassimatis (Human Level Intelligence Laboratory)</em><br /><em>Andrew Coward (Australian National University)</em><br /><em>Richard Duro (Universidade da Coruna) </em><br /><em>David Fogel (Natural Selection Inc.)</em><br /><em>Walter Freeman (University of California)</em><br /><em>Ben Goertzel (Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute)</em><br /><em>Robert Hecht-Nielsen (University of California)</em><br /><em>Soo Young Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)</em><br /><em>John Pollock (University of Arizona)</em><br /><em>John Taylor (King's College London)<br /><br /><strong>Summary</strong></em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Building intelligent systems with the human level of competence is the ultimate grand challenge for science and technology in general, and the computational intelligence community in particular. How are we going to achieve it? Several exciting projects aimed at reaching human-level intelligence have been formulated recently. Some of these projects start from low-level neuromorphic brain simulations, some focus on mesoscopic brain simulators, some are based on hybrid architectures and some try to develop higher-level cognitive functions at purely symbolic level. What are the merits, what are the limitations, and what can we expect at the end of each road? Potential applications span across areas of basic brain research and medicine to cognitive robotics and space research. </em><br /><em></em><br /><em>At the WCCI 2006 congress we plan to have a special session and a panel discussion aimed at defining a roadmap to building systems with human-level intelligence. It is a multi disciplinary subject demanding concentrated effort of experts from various fields. The emphasis will be on the scalability of the proposed models, defining the series of challenges that should be solved by these models, evolutionary and bootstrap approaches that may bring us there faster. Before the panel we shall have a special session where position papers will be presented. An edited book containing expanded versions of these papers will be published after the conference. Such organization should allow us to concentrate more on intensive discussion during the panel.</em>Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12743597120529571571noreply@blogger.com