Public Dialogues

YHouse continues its program of lectures, events, and conversations on exciting and provocative topics at a number of venues around New York City.

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. Julian Togelius (Game Innovation Lab, New York University) and GoodAI

Games, particularly video games, are increasingly used to test artificial intelligence. But what sort of intelligence is it that we want to develop? It appears to be possible to play individual games very well without actually being intelligent. Would general video game playing, where you develop agents that can play any game, lead us to general intelligence? In that case, which type of general intelligence?

In this meetup, Dr. Julian Togelius will explore the role of video games in developing general 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, April 5, 6 p.m.
WeWork Park South 10th Floor Lounge (entrance at 110 E. 28th Street)
Registration required →