{"id":377,"date":"2009-11-08T05:09:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:09:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:09:25","slug":"at-the-singularity-summit-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/at-the-singularity-summit-in-nyc.php","title":{"rendered":"At the Singularity Summit in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in NYC for the Singularity Summit, which starts tomorrow morning. This will be the first Summit I have attended; there are some interesting talks on. Here is the program for tomorrow:<\/p><p>9:00 am<br>Introduction<br>Michael Vassar, Singularity Institute<\/p><div>9:05 am<br>Shaping the Intelligence Explosion<br>Anna Salamon, Singularity Institute<\/div><div>9:35 am<br>Technical Roadmap for Whole Brain Emulation<br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute<\/div><div>10:00 am<br>The time is now: As a species and as individuals we need whole brain emulation<br>Randal Koene, Fatronik-Tecnalia Foundation<\/div><div>10:25 am<br>Technological Convergence Leading to Artificial General Intelligence<br>Itamar Arel, University of Tennessee<\/div><div><\/div><div>11:10 am<br>Pathways to Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence: Virtual Pets, Robot Children, Artificial Bioscientists, and Beyond<br>Ben Goertzel, Novamente<\/div><div>11:35 am<br>Neural Substrates of Consciousness and the 'Conscious Pilot' Model<br>Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona<\/div><div>11:55 am<br>Quantum Computing: What It Is, What It Is Not, What We Have Yet to Learn<br>Michael Nielsen<\/div><div>12:35 am<br>DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life<br>Ned Seeman, New York University<\/div><div>1:00 pm<br>Lunch<\/div><div>2:20 pm<br>Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Humor<br>Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA<\/div><div>3:00 pm<br>Conversation on the Singularity<br>Stephen Wolfram and Gregory Benford<\/div><div>3:30 pm<br>Simulation and the Singularity<br>David Chalmers, Australian National University<\/div><div>4:15 pm<br>Choice Machines, Causality, and Cooperation<br>Gary Drescher<\/div><div>4:45 pm<br>Coffee break<\/div><div>5:05 pm<br>Synthetic Neurobiology: Optically Engineering the Brain to Augment Its Function<br>Ed Boyden, MIT Media Lab<\/div><div>5:30 pm<br>Foundations of Intelligent Agents<br>Marcus Hutter, Australian National University<\/div><div>5:55 pm<br>Cognitive Ability: Past and Future Enhancements and Implications<br>William Dickens, Northeastern University<\/div><div>6:30 pm<br>The Ubiquity and Predictability of the Exponential Growth of Information Technology<br>Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil Technologies<\/div><div><\/div><div>I hope to write summaries of these talks tomorrow, assuming some kind person lends me a laptop... <\/div><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c44cc_7813164664144593334-3872406288388137515?l=transhumangoodness.blogspot.com\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in NYC for the Singularity Summit, which starts tomorrow morning. This will be the first Summit I have attended; there are some interesting talks on. Here is the program for tomorrow:9:00 amIntroductionMichael Vassar, Singularity Institute9:05 amShaping the Intelligence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/at-the-singularity-summit-in-nyc.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhuman"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}