Ben Goertzel’s comprehensive report on the recent Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, aimed at “the creation of thinking machines with general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond,” has been published.

– Keynoter Juergen Schmidhuber projects a date for the Singularity of 2040, compared to Ray Kurzweil’s 2045 (not 2047 as stated in the article).

– The winner of the Kurzweil Best AGI Paper Award was titled “Combining Analytical and Evolutionary Inductive Programming,” by Neil Crossley, Emanuel Kitzelmann, Martin Hofmann and Ute Schmid, from the Cognitive Systems Group at the University of Bamberg, combining evolutionary learning and and analytical learning.

– An AGI Roadmap was proposed.