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The third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence will be taking place in Lugano, Switzerland from Friday the 5th to Monday the 8th of March (the picture on the front page of my website is of Lugano). The keynote speaker is the famous reinforcement learning researcher Rich Sutton, and it seems that the inventor of Kolmogorov complexity, Solomonoff induction and universal probability theory, Ray Solomonoff, will also be speaking. The general conference chair is Marcus Hutter, and the local chair is Jürgen Schmidhuber. There will also be Kurzweil Prizes worth $1000 for both the best paper and the best new idea.

Given that AGI is still a young and relatively unknown part of the wider AI community, it’s great to see such well known researchers putting their names behind this conference. As a member of the program committee I’ve been able to check out some of the submissions so far and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by their quality — indeed, this is what gave me the impetus to write this post! If you’d like to submit something there’s still time: the deadline is the 1st of December.