Selected Summit Talks:
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- Ray Kurzweil
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The Ubiquity and Predictability of the Exponential Growth of Information Technology
Founder and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies
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- Aubrey de Grey
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The Singularity and the Methuselarity: Similarities and Differences
Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation
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- Stephen Wolfram
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Conversation on the Singularity
Founder and CEO, Wolfram Research
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- Peter Thiel
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Macroeconomics and Singularity
President, Clarium Capital Management; Co-Founder, PayPal; Managing Partner, Founders Fund; Seed Investor, Facebook
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- David Chalmers
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Simulation and the Singularity
Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University, Director of the Centre for Consciousness
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- Michael Nielsen
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Collaborative Networks In Scientific Discovery
Quantum Computing Pioneer, Author
The Singularity Summit Program
Saturday, October 3
- 9:00 am
- Introduction
Michael Vassar, Singularity Institute
- 9:05 am
- Shaping the Intelligence Explosion
Anna Salamon, Singularity Institute
- 9:35 am
- Technical Roadmap for Whole Brain Emulation
Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute
- 10:00 am
- The time is now: As a species and as individuals we need whole brain emulation
Randal Koene, Fatronik-Tecnalia Foundation
- 10:25 am
- Technological Convergence Leading to Artificial General Intelligence
Itamar Arel, University of Tennessee
- 10:50 am
- Coffee Break
- 11:10 am
- Pathways to Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence: Virtual Pets, Robot Children, Artificial Bioscientists, and Beyond
Ben Goertzel, Novamente
- 11:35 am
- Neural Substrates of Consciousness and the 'Conscious Pilot' Model
Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona
- 11:55 am
- Quantum Computing: What It Is, What It Is Not, What We Have Yet to Learn
Michael Nielsen
- 12:35 am
- DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life
Ned Seeman, New York University
- 1:00 pm
- Lunch
- 2:20 pm
- Compression Progress: The Algorithmic Principle Behind Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Humor
Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA
- 3:00 pm
- Conversation on the Singularity
Stephen Wolfram and Gregory Benford
- 3:30 pm
- Simulation and the Singularity
David Chalmers, Australian National University
- 4:15 pm
- Choice Machines, Causality, and Cooperation
Gary Drescher
- 4:45 pm
- Coffee break
- 5:05 pm
- Synthetic Neurobiology: Optically Engineering the Brain to Augment Its Function
Ed Boyden, MIT Media Lab
- 5:30 pm
- Foundations of Intelligent Agents
Marcus Hutter, Australian National University
- 5:55 pm
- Cognitive Ability: Past and Future Enhancements and Implications
William Dickens, Northeastern University
- 6:30 pm
- The Ubiquity and Predictability of the Exponential Growth of Information Technology
Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil Technologies
October 4th
- 8:00 am
- More than Moore: Comparing Forecasts of Technological Progress
Bela Nagy, Santa Fe Institute
- 8:20 am
- The "Petaflop Macroscope"
Gary Wolf, Wired Magazine
- 8:40 am
- Collaborative Networks In Scientific Discovery
Michael Nielsen
- 9:00 am
- How Does Society Identify Experts and When Does It Work?
Robin Hanson, George Mason University
- 9:20 am
- Future of Scientific Method Panel: Gary Wolf, Michael Nielsen, Robin Hanson. Moderator: James Jorasch
- 9:50 am
- Coffee Break
- 10:15 am
- Artificial Biological Selection for Longevity
Gregory Benford, University of California- Irvine
- 10:40 am
- Critics of the Singularity
Ray Kurzweil, Kurzweil Technologies
- 11:10 am
- The Finger of AI: Automated Electrical Vehicles and Oil Independence
Brad Templeton, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- 11:55 am
- Lunch
- 1:15 pm
- The Fallibility and Improvability of the Human Mind
Gary Marcus, New York University
- 1:40 pm
- Macroeconomics and Singularity
Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital Management
- 2:20 pm
- Venture Capitalist Panel: Peter Thiel, David Rose, Mark Gorenberg. Moderator: Robert Pisani
- 2:50 pm
- Coffee Break
- 3:15 pm
- The Singularity and the Methuselarity: Similarities and Differences
Aubrey De Grey, SENS Foundation
- 3:40 pm
- Cognitive Biases and Giant Risks
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Singularity Institute
- 4:10 pm
- Discussion: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Aubrey De Grey, Peter Thiel. Moderator: Michael Vassar
- 4:40 pm
- How much it matters to know what matters: A back of the envelope calculation
Anna Salamon, Singularity Institute
- 5:00 pm
- Summit ends
The Singularity Summit Speakers
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- Anders Sandberg
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Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University
Anders' Site
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- Randal Koene
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Director, Department of Neuroengineering, Fatronik-Tecnalia Foundation
Randal's Site
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- Itamar Arel
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Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director of the Machine Intelligence Lab, The University of Tennessee
Itamar's Site
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- Ben Goertzel
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Director of Research, Singularity Institute, Founder and CEO, Novamente
Ben's Site
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- Stuart Hameroff
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Director, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona
Stuart's Site
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- Michael Nielsen
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Quantum Computing Pioneer, Author
Michael's Site
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- Ned Seeman
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Professor, Department of Chemistry, New York University
Ned's Site
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- Jürgen Schmidhuber
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Director of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA
Jürgen's site
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- Gary Drescher
- AI Researcher, Philosopher, Author of Made-Up Minds: A Constructivist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
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- Peter Thiel
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President, Clarium Capital
Peter at CrunchBase
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- Marcus Hutter
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Australian National University, Associate Professor
Marcus' Site
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- Stephen Wolfram
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Founder and CEO, Wolfram Research
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- Ray Kurzweil
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Founder and CEO, Kurzweil Technologies
The Singularity Is Near, Ray's Site
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- David Chalmers
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Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University, Director of the Centre for Consciousness
David's Site
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- William Dickens
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Distinguished Professor of Economics and
Social Policy, Northeastern University
William's Site
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- Béla Nagy
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
Béla's Site
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- Gary Marcus
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Director, NYU Center for Child Language
Gary's Site
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- Gary Wolf
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Contributing Editor at Wired Magazine, Author
Gary's Site
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- Robin Hanson
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Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Robin's Site
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- Gregory Benford
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Dr. of Physics, Chair, Genescient Corporation
Gregory's Site
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- Brad Templeton
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Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Brad's Site
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- Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Research Fellow, Singularity Institute
Eliezer's Site
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- Aubrey de Grey
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Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation
Aubrey on Accelerating Future
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- Anna Salamon
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Research Fellow, Singularity Institute
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence


