Reports

The purpose of the conference was to exchange ideas about the creation of artificial systems with general intelligence at, and ultimately beyond, the human level. GI-09, the Second International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, was held March 6-9 in Arlington, Virginia. Ben Goertzel chaired the conference, and Marcus Hutter and Pascal Hitzler chaired the program committee. Continuing the mission of AGI-08 (which was held March 2008 at the University of Memphis), the purpose of the conference was to provide a venue for exchange of in-depth scientific ideas and results between researchers working directly toward the original goal of the AI endeavor: the creation of artificial systems with general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond. The first day of the conference featured in-depth tutorials on leading AGI systems and approaches, including introductions to the SOAR, Texai, and OpenCog software, and overviews of the logic-based, reinforcement learning and program-induction approaches to AGI.