The Singularity Summit 2007
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Singularity Summit 2007 Coverage:
Are We Alone? (SETI Radio Show): When Machines RuleAssociated Press: Techies ponder computers smarter than us
Forbes: Robot chic
Reason: Will Super-Smart Artificial Intelligences Keep Humans Around As Pets?
San Francisco Chronicle: Public meeting will re-examine future of AI
San Jose Mercury News: Venture capitalist: We need to prepare for AI
Wired: Peter Thiel explains how to invest in the Singularity
Dialogue with Ray Kurzweil
Special Announcement: Ray Kurzweil will participate remotely via video conference, and field audience questions on Sunday September 9th at 3:45pm. Kurzweil, noted inventor, futurist, and author, is a director of the Singularity Institute and author of the best-selling The Singularity Is Near.
Summit 2007 Speakers
- Dr. Rodney Brooks, Director, MIT Computer Science & AI Laboratory
- Dr. Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google
- Paul Saffo, Roy Amara Fellow, Institute for the Future
- Jamais Cascio, Co-founder, Worldchanging
- Dr. Ben Goertzel, Director of Research, The Singularity Institute
- Dr. John S. Hall, Independent Scientist and Author
- Dr. Charles L. Harper, JR, Senior VP, John Templeton Foundation
- Dr. James Hughes, Co-founder & Executive Director, IEET
- Neil Jacobstein, Chairman & CEO, Teknowledge
- Dr. Stephen Omohundro, Founder & President, Self-aware Systems
- Dr. Barney Pell, Founder & CEO, Powerset
- Christine L. Peterson, Co-founder & VP, Foresight Nanotech Institute
- Peter Voss, Founder & CEO, Adaptive AI
- Wandell Wallach, Lecturer, Yale's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics
- Eliezer Yudkowsky, Co-founder & Research Fellow, The Singularity Institute
Summit 2007 Ticket Price
The Singularity Summit 2007 charges a token amount of $50 to guarantee your seating for both September 8th and 9th. If there are any seats remaining on the day of the summit, September 8th will be opened to public attendance, first come first served. Purchase tickets online now to guarantee your seating.
Quotes from Prominent Thinkers
If you invent a breakthrough in artificial intelligence, so machines can learn, that is worth 10 Microsofts.
- — Bill Gates
What is the singularity?
For over a hundred thousand years, the evolved human brain has held a privileged place in the expanse of cognition. Within this century, science may move humanity beyond its boundary of intelligence. This possibility, the singularity, may be a critical event in history, and deserves thoughtful consideration. More
Summit Networking
You will have the opportunity to network with the most forward-looking, visionary audience in the Bay Area. You will also have the chance to meet and talk with the Summit 2007 speakers during the three-hour, Saturday night reception.
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Summit 2006
The Singularity Summit at Stanford, the first academic symposium focused on the singularity scenario, brought together 1,300 people and 10 speakers to explore the future of human and machine cognition, including Ray Kurzweil, Dr. Douglas R. Hofstadter, and Dr. Sebastian Thrun. Press coverage included a feature article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Summit 2007 Coverage
- Bag and Baggage
- Betterhumans
- Renee Blodgett's Down the Avenue
- Boing Boing
- Brad Templeton's Blog
- CRN's Responsible Nanotechnology Blog
- Cyberpunkreview.com
- Foresight Nanotech Institute's Nanodot
- David Forrest's Innovation Watch
- Jamais Cascio's Open the Future
- IEET Ethical Technology Blog
- KurzweilAI.net
- Mike Linksvayer's Blog
- Powerset Blog
- ScienceBlogs
- Singularity University
- The Speculist
- Steve Jurvetson's The J Curve
- ZDNET's Between the Lines