Abstracts and PowerPoints are now available online for the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute’s (AGIRI) first workshop, May 20-21.

“The field of AI is poised to make a transition from a focus on highly specialized ‘narrow AI’ problem solving systems to confronting the more difficult issues of ‘human level intelligence’ and more broadly ‘artificial general intelligence,'” according to an AGIRI statement.

The workshop focused on AGI issues in general, and also on grounding linguistic relationships in nonlinguistic reality. Speakers included Stan Franklin (Univ. of Memphis), Hugo de Garis (Utah State), Sam S. Adams (IBM), Eric Baum, Pei Wang (Temple), Nick Cassimatis (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst), Steve Grand (Cyberlife Research), Ben Goertzel (Novamente LLC) and others.