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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research focuses on the original and ultimate
goal of AI – to create broad human-like and transhuman intelligence, by exploring
all available paths, including theoretical and experimental computer science,
cognitive science, neuroscience, and innovative interdisciplinary methodologies.
Due to the difficulty of this task, for the last few decades the majority of AI
researchers have focused on what has been called narrow AI – the production of
AI systems displaying intelligence regarding specific, highly constrained tasks. In
recent years, however, 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 a transition back to confronting the more difficult issues of
human level intelligence and more broadly artificial general intelligence.
The Conference on Artificial General Intelligence is the only major conference
series devoted wholly and specifically to the creation of AI systems possessing
general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond. Its second installation,
AGI-09, in Arlington, Virginia, March 6-9, 2009, attracted 67 paper
submissions, which is a substantial increase from the previous year. Of these
submissions, 33 (i.e., 49%) were accepted as full papers for presentation at the
conference. Additional 13 papers were included as position papers. The program
also included a keynote address by J¨urgen Schmidhuber on The New AI, a
post-conference workshop on The Future of AI, and a number of pre-conference
tutorials on various topics related to AGI. |
