The Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence: Improved Lineup
Our Itamar Arel, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Eric Baum, James Bonaiuto,
Joanna Bryson, Antonio Chella, Haris Dindo, Marco Dorigo, Wlodzislaw
"Wlodek" Duch, Rod Furlan, Deon Garrett, Ben Goertzel, Faustino Gomez,
J. Storrs Hall, Demis Hassabis, Marcus Hutter, Matt Iklé, Bruce Klein,
Randal Koene, András Kornai, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger, John E. Laird,
Christian Lebiere, Shane Legg, Moshe Looks, András Lörincz, Matt Luciw,
David Orban, Jan Poland, Stephen Reed, Sebastian Rudolph, Rafal Rzepka,
Alexei V. Samsonovich, Ricardo Sanz, Tom Schaul, Matthias Scheutz,
Jürgen Schmidhuber, Kristinn R. Thórisson, Julian Togelius, Lyle Ungar,
Wendell Wallach, Pei Wang, Marco Wiering, Mary-Anne Williams, and David
Wolpert are participating in The Fourth Conference on Artificial General
Intelligence which will be hosted by Google from August 3rd to 6th in
Mountain View, California, USA.
Learn more at http://agi-conf.org/2011/
Reports
Read "The 'Energularity'" by our José Luis Cordeiro at
http://lifeboat.com/ex/the.energularity
It begins with:
Homo sapiens sapiens is the only species that has learned how to harness
the power of fire. The conscious generation and use of external energy
plays a unique role in our human and cultural evolution, from harnessing
fire to developing nuclear fusion. Humanity has gone through several
energy "waves", advancing exponentially from wood, coal, oil, gas, and
hydrogen/solar/nuclear in a continuous process of "decarbonization" and
"hydrogenization" of our energy sources.
The creation of an Energy Network or "Enernet" will allow us to connect
the whole world and to increase, not reduce, our energy consumption. With the "Enernet", energy and power will become abundant and basically
free, just like information and bandwidth are today thanks to the
Internet. This is fundamental for improving the living standards of all
people around the world and for moving into the next planetary
transition; energy is essential for solving humanity's needs on Earth
and for exploring and colonizing the universe.
Blog
Matt Funk joins our blog team with the post "A (Relatively) Brief
Introduction to The Principles of Economics & Evolution: A Survival
Guide for the Inhabitants of Small Islands, Including the Inhabitants of
the Small Island of Earth" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/04/a-rela...of-earth
Paul McGlothin joins our blog team with the post "You are What you Don't
Eat!" at http://lifeboat.com/blog/2011/04/you-ar...dont-eat
Brazil Job Opening
Cria is looking to hire a senior technology futurist. The position is
full-time, based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and involves a minimum of 20%
of time for travel.
Learn more at http://criaglobal.com/tech-futurist-cria/
Growing Membership
Recent donations/pledges we have received since the last newsletter:
Donald Maclean: $1,000,
Anonymous: $500,
Ralf J. Muller: $350,
James Blodgett: $200,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Michael Breazeale: $25,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Ronald Amos: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Christopher Dilkus: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
Stephen Fleming: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Phil Nadeau: $10,
John N. Philipps (Jack): $10,
Lee Irwin Pringle: $10,
Frank D. Smith: $10,
Rhonda Stevenson: $10,
and Eric McGehearty: $1.
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.
