Singularity Summit 2008 offers discount to KurzweilAI.net readers; keynote by Kurzweil clarifies Turing test rules

October 20, 2008 | Source: KurzweilAI

The Singularity Summit (October 25 in San Jose) has offered a 15 percent discount to KurzweilAI.net readers who register at this link. About 90 seats are left.

The Summit program includes a keynote by Ray Kurzweil, which will include updated charts based on extensive new research, and a comparison of test rules in the recent Loebner Turing test to more rigorous rules defined by Kurzweil and Mitch Kapor in a wager on whether AI will be achieved by 2029.

There will also be a dialogue between Kurzweil and IEEE Spectrum journalist John Horgan, moderated by IEEE executive editor Glenn Zorpette, regarding recent criticisms in the magazine.