The Singularity Summit Program
Day 1: The Future of Human Evolution
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration starts. Breakfast served outside the hotel by Boudin |
| 9:00 AM - 9:05 AM | Sean McCabe: Introduction |
| 9:05 AM - 9:40 AM | Michael Vassar: The Darwinian Method |
| 9:45 AM - 10:25 AM | Gregory Stock: Evolution of Post-Human Intelligence |
| 10:25 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Ray Kurzweil: The Mind and How to Build One |
| 12:05 PM - 12:40 PM | Ben Goertzel: AI Against Aging |
| 12:40 PM - 2:10 PM | Lunch: Served by Boudin outside the hotel |
| 2:10 PM - 2:45 PM | Steven Mann: Extending ourselves with technology |
| 2:50 PM - 3:20 PM | Mandayam Srinivasan: Replacing our bodies |
| 3:25 PM - 4:10 PM | Brian Litt: The past, present and future of brain machine interface |
| 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | Demis Hassabis: Combining systems neuroscience and machine learning: a new approach to AGI |
| 4:50 PM - 5:15 PM | Coffee Break |
| 5:20 PM - 5:45 PM | Terry Sejnowski: Reverse-engineering brains is within reach |
| 5:50 PM - 6:15 PM | Dennis Bray: What Cells Can Do That Robots Can't |
| 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM | Sejnowski/Bray debate: Will we soon realistically emulate biological systems? |
| 7:00 PM | Closing |
Day 2: Why and How We Should Solve the World’s Problems
| 9:00 AM - 9:35 AM | Eliezer Yudkowsky: Simplified Humanism and Positive Futurism |
| 9:40 AM - 10:15 AM | Ramez Naam: The Digital Biome |
| 10:15 AM - 10:40 AM | Coffee and bagels served by Boudin |
| 10:40 AM - 11:10 AM | Lance Becker: Modifying the Boundary between Life and Death |
| 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Ellen Heber-Katz: The MRL mouse - how it regenerates and how we might do the same |
| 11:50 AM - 12:35 PM | Anita Goel: Rapid diagnostics and sensing with nanofluidics |
| 12:35 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00 PM - 2:35 PM | Shane Legg: Universal measures of intelligence |
| 2:40 PM - 3:15 PM | John Tooby: General intelligence and narrowly intelligent modules |
| 3:20 PM - 4:00 PM | Tooby, Goertzel, Yudkowsky & Legg panel: Narrow and General Intelligence |
| 4:00 PM - 4:25 PM | Break |
| 4:25 PM - 4:55 PM | David Hanson: Emotionally Intelligent Machines |
| 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | TBD |
| 5:35 PM - 6:10 PM | Irene Pepperberg: Nonhuman Intelligence: Where we are and where we're headed |
| 6:15 PM - 7:00 PM | James Randi: Is there such a thing as scientific consensus? |
| 7:00 PM | Closing |
Summit Speakers:
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- Dr. Ray Kurzweil
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Founder and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies
Author, The Singularity is Near
Talk: The Mind and How to Build One
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- Dr. Anita Goel
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Chairman & Scientific Director, Nanobiosym Research Institute
Founder & CEO, Nanobiosym, Inc.
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- Prof. John Tooby
- Co-Director, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, UCSB
Founder of the field of Evolutionary Psychology
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- Ramez Naam
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Author, More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement
Talk: The Digital Biome
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- Dr. Gregory Stock CEO, Signum Biosciences
Author, Redesigning Humans
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- David Hanson
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Founder & CEO, Hanson Robotics
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- Shane Legg
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
University College London
Talk: The Nature of Intelligence
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- Michael Vassar
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President, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Talk: The Darwinian Method
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- Brian Litt, MD
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Associate Professor of Neurology & Bioengineering, Litt Lab
University of Pennsylvania
University College London
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- Lance B. Becker, MD
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Director, Penn Center for Resuscitation Science
Talk: Modifying the Boundary Between Life and Death
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- James Randi
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President & Founder, James Randi Educational Foundation
Author, The Truth About Uri Geller
Talk: Towards a Scientific Consensus
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- Dr. Irene Pepperberg
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Founder, Alex Foundation
Author, Alex and Me
Talk: Nonhuman Intelligence: Where we Are and Where We're Headed
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- Prof. Steven Mann
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Professor at University of Toronto
Inventor, Augmented Reality Pioneer
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- Ellen Heber-Katz, Ph.D
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Professor, Wistar Institute
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Talk: The MRL mouse - how it regenerates and how we might do the same
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- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Palo Alto, California
Talk: Simplified Humanism and Positive Futurism
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- Demis Hassabis
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Research Fellow, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
University College London
Talk: Combining systems neuroscience and machine learning: a new approach to AGI
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- Dennis Bray
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Emeritus Professor (active), University of Cambridge
Author, Wetware, a Computer in Every Living Cell
Talk: What Cells Can Do That Robots Can't
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- Terry Sejnowski
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Professor and Laboratory Head
Computational Neurobiology Laboratory
Salk Institute
Talk: Reverse Engineering Brains Is Within Reach
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- Mandayam Srinivasan
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Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Human and Machine Haptics (The TouchLab)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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- Ben Goertzel
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CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC
Vice Chairman, Humanity+
