The Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
Google, Mountain View, CA, August 3-7 (Wed-Sat) 2011
http://agi-conf.org/2011/home/

The original goal of the AI field was the construction of “thinking machines”, that is, computer systems with human-like general intelligence. For the last few decades, however, the majority of AI researchers have focused on what can be called “narrow AI” – systems with intelligence limited to specific, highly constrained tasks. In recent years more and more researchers have recognized the necessity – and feasibility – of returning to the original goals of the field.

Increasingly, there is a call for confronting the more difficult issues of human-level intelligence, and more broadly “artificial general intelligence” (AGI). Continuing the mission of the first three highly successful AGI conferences, AGI-11 will gather an international group of leading academic and industry researchers involved in serious scientific and engineering work aimed directly at the goal of AGI. This is the only major conference series devoted wholly and specifically to the creation of AI systems possessing general intelligence at the human level and beyond. A good sense of the overall nature of the conference may be found via perusing AGI-10, AGI-09, and AGI-08, e.g., http://agi-conf.org/2010/ . AGI-11 will be hosted by Google in Mountain View, California.

Submissions are solicited for proposals, workshops, tutorials, and demos, including those on Artificial Evolution for AI. Whether an accepted paper (either full-length or short position statement) will be presented as a talk or as a poster will be determined by the Program Committee, in part based on paper quality as assessed by the anonymous reviewers, and in part according to the extent the paper addresses a topic of core interest to the AGI community.

Submission instructions: http://agi-conf.org/2011/call-for-papers/

Submission deadline: February 15, 2011.

Jürgen Schmidhuber & Kristinn R. Thórisson (AGI-11 Program Chairs)

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