Name: CC #14: Towards General Artificial Intelligence — YHouse
Start: 2017-02-22T18:00:00-0500
End: 2017-02-22T19:00:00-0500

Consciousness Club NYC

YHouse invites you to the Consciousness Club, a study group to promote broadly transdisciplinary discussions on the neural and computational bases of consciousness, and how these concepts can be applied to other fields of interest. Our weekly meetings are for you if you are into awareness, science, technology, philosophy, art, and design.

For more information and meeting schedule, check out our Facebook page, or tune in to our Twitter updates.

Although the meetings are open to all, we encourage technical and scientific discussions for this series of meetings.

Cognition Lunch Salon

YHouse continues to organize informal Lunch Salon events hosted by the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, N.J., West Building Seminar Room, 2nd floor. The format is an informal chat, followed by longer open-ended discussions among the participants, on the topic of consciousness and cognition. This event is by invitation only. To request an invitation, please email us at info@yhousenyc.org

With Dr. Tomas Mikolov (Facebook) and GoodAI

There is a quickly growing interest in AI in the recent years. The ultimate goal for many researchers is to develop a system that could perform as well as humans in a broad set of tasks, without having to be manually programmed for each. However, this so-called ‘general AI’ still seems to be a distant dream, and maybe all the recent successful stories are examples of narrow AI that can perform only a single task.

In this meetup, Dr. Tomas Mikolov discusses “Communication-based General Artificial Intelligence,” and a general artificial intelligence R&D company GoodAI will introduce its $5M General AI Challenge, aiming to tackle crucial research problems in human-level AI development.

Wednesday, February 22, 6 p.m.
Registration required