Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute
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Founded in 2001, the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute's (AGIRI) mission
Strategic planning
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 is to "foster the creation of powerful and ethically positive" Artificial General Intelligence
Strong AI
Strong AI is artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence — the intelligence of a machine that can successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can. It is a primary goal of artificial intelligence research and an important topic for science fiction writers and...

. AGIRI hosts an online forum, publishes material on the development, application and implications for AGI, and hosts AGI workshops in the Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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 area.

AGIRI is sponsored by Novamente LLC, a for-profit software company based in N. Bethesda, MD
Maryland
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.

See also

  • Strong AI
    Strong AI
    Strong AI is artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence — the intelligence of a machine that can successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can. It is a primary goal of artificial intelligence research and an important topic for science fiction writers and...

  • Ben Goertzel
    Ben Goertzel
    Ben Goertzel , is an American author and researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. He currently leads Novamente LLC, a privately held software company that attempts to develop a form of strong AI, which he calls "Artificial General Intelligence"...

  • Hugo de Garis
    Hugo de Garis
    Hugo de Garis is a researcher in the sub-field of artificial intelligence known as evolvable hardware. He became known in the 1990s for his research on the use of genetic algorithms to evolve neural networks using three dimensional cellular automata inside field programmable gate arrays...

  • Stan Franklin
    Stan Franklin
    Stan Franklin is an American scientist and W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor at the and co-director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems. He is the author of Artificial Minds and mental father of IDA and its successor LIDA, both computational implementations of...

  • Peter Nordin
    Peter Nordin
    Peter Nordin is a Swedish computer scientist, entrepreneur and author who has contributed to artificial intelligence, automatic programming, machine learning, and evolutionary robotics.- Studies and early career :...

  • OpenCog
    OpenCog
    OpenCog is a project that aims to build an open source artificial general intelligence framework. OpenCog Prime is a specific set of interacting components designed to give rise to human-equivalent artificial general intelligence...


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