Cross Roads #20

Guest speaker: Prof. Julian Togelius, Associate Professor, New York University & modl.ai

Title: Artificial General Intelligence at the End of the Rainbow

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Date: Thursday, January 28th, 2021

Afternoon schedule:

• 11:00am Talk by guest speaker
• 11:30am Open-ended discussion
• 02:00pm Event ends

Organizers: Olaf Witkowski, Antoine Pasquali, and Katsunobu Suzuki, Cross Labs / Cross Compass Ltd.

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Abstract: Many AI researchers are motivated by creating artificial general intelligence, or AGI for short. Others are scared that AGI could become unstoppable and take over the world. But what do we actually mean by AGI? I argue that we do not know, because we have never seen any actual general intelligence, in either natural or artificial minds.

It is not clear that general intelligence, as apparently understood by many, is even possible. Still, the quest for AGI is a meaningful one, as it helps us to piece by piece deconstruct our concept of intelligence.

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