The Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
Mountain View, California, USA
August 3-6, 2011

Indefinite probabilities are a novel technique for quantifying uncertainty, which were created as part of the PLN (Probabilistic Logic Networks)
logical inference engine, which is a key component of the Novamente Cognition Engine (NCE), an integrative AGI system. Previous papers have discussed the use of indefinite probabilities in the context of a variety of logical inference rules, but have omitted discussion of quantification. Here, in this presentation by Matthew Ikle on the paper by the speaker and Ben Goertzel, delivered at the AGI-08 Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, this gap is filled. A mathematical procedure is provided allowing the propagation of indefinite
probabilities through universal and existential quantifiers, and also through a variety of fuzzy quantifiers corresponding to natural language quantifiers (such as “few”, “man”, “a lot”, “hardly any”, etc.).

Google's Peter Norvig discusses the philosophy and modern state of artificial intelligence.

Approaches to AI - AGI Progress/Impediments - http://2011.singularitysummit.com.au

Drexlerian nanotech implies a production technology with large fixed costs of design, low variable cost of production, low cost of copying-the equivalent for physical objects of the current technology for software. This raises an interesting set of issues, paralleling issues that already exist for software—how does the fixed cost get paid for? As with software, and other current forms of intellectual property, the problem is complicated by the difficulty of enforcing copyright or analogous legal rules in the face of easy copying.

When considering the possible impact of advanced artificial intelligence on the future, most futurists use anthropomorphic reasoning about AI behavior and motivations. I argue why these assumptions are a potentially dangerous way to approach the challenge of engineering human-friendly AI, which could be the most important challenge of this century.

Ben Goertzel demonstrates his open source AI project, Opencog. At Singularity Summit 2008.

Ben Kuipers speaking at the 2011 Winter Intelligence Conference at Oxford University, hosted by the Future of Humanity Institute

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