We meet second and fourth Sundays every month to discuss AI topics such as:
- Symbolic and SubSymbolic Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, and Artificial Intuition
- Complexity theory, Model theory
- Semantic Web, Ontology based systems
- Robotics and Robot Ethics
- Linguistics, Document understanding, Semantics, and the Semantic Gap
- Evolutionary Computation, GA, GP, GS
- Computer Consciousness, Novelty, and Creativity
- Human Learning, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
- Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science, Reductionism and Holism
- AI, Singularity, nanoTechnology, and the future
Our meetings typically consist of a roughly one hour presentation followed by another hour of discussion on any AI-related topic. We try to mix discussions of the latest relevant ideas with tutorials on AI and Philosophy fundamentals at a level accessible to everyone.
Several MeetUps have been video recorded with the intent to publish them on the web. Some are now available at http://videos.syntience.com and more will be added as they get through postproduction.
All the puzzllers in the previously mentioned topic - "Mary's Room, the Chinese Room, Zombies, Bats, and Qualia" are already scheduled to be discussed by Bob Blum in his talk on 2/28/10 . A meetup will happen on 2/14 but I'll find another topic in a few hours and I'll send out a new email. My apologies for the confusion. Read more
This group doesn't have any additional upcoming Meetups scheduled.
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“ The best meetup group I have joined so far. I am learning a lot from Monica & the quality of the people attending makes the on-going conversation totally exciting. ”
“ Leader (Monica) is extremely bright, diligent, and an excellent moderator. Participants are bright and group dynamic is excellent. ”