Singularity Summit

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The Singularity Summit is the annual conference of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. It was started in 2006 at Stanford University[1][2] by Ray Kurzweil, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Peter Thiel, and the subsequent summits in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 have been held in San Francisco, San Jose, New York, San Francisco, and New York, respectively. Some speakers have included Sebastian Thrun, Sam Adams, Rodney Brooks, Barney Pell, Marshall Brain, Justin Rattner, Peter Diamandis, Stephen Wolfram, Gregory Benford, Robin Hanson, Anders Sandberg, Juergen Schmidhuber, Aubrey de Grey, Max Tegmark, Michael Shermer, and Alex Wissner-Gross.

There have also been spinoff conferences in Melbourne, Australia in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Previous speakers include David Chalmers, Lawrence Krauss, Gregory Benford, Ben Goertzel, Steve Omohundro, Hugo de Garis, Marcus Hutter, Mark Pesce, Stelarc and Randal A. Koene.

2006

The first Singularity Summit took place in 2006 at Stanford University.

Speakers

Todd Davies, Tyler Emerson, Peter Thiel, Nick Bostrom, Bill McKibben, Christine Peterson, Max More, K. Eric Drexler, John Smart, Cory Doctorow, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ray Kurzweil, Sebastian Thrun, Douglas Hofstadter.

2007

The second Singularity Summit took place in 2007 in San Francisco.

Speakers

Tyler Emerson, Peter Thiel, Christine L. Peterson, James Hughes, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ray Kurzweil, J. Storrs Hall, Steve Jurvetson, Peter Thiel, Barney Pell, Wendell Wallach, Sam Adams: Peter Voss, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Paul Saffo, Jamais Cascio, Ben Goertzel, Barney Pell, Christine L. Peterson, Stephen M. Omohundro, Peter Voss, Charles L. Harper, Jr., Wendell Wallach, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Peter Norvig, Stephen M. Omohundro, Rodney Brooks, Neil Jacobstein, Ben Goertzel, Paul Saffo, J. Storrs Hall, Peter Thiel, Charles L. Harper, Jr, James Hughes, Neil Jacobstein, Sam Adams

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2013

See also

References

  1. ↑ Abate, Tony (May 12, 2006). "Smarter than thou? Stanford conference ponders a brave new world with machines more powerful than their creators". San Francisco Chronicle. p. D1. Retrieved March 10, 2012. 
  2. ↑ Taylor, Chris (June 14, 2006). "Readying a radical business plan". Business 2.0 Magazine (CNN). Retrieved March 10, 2012. 

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