Here is an index of all Singularity Summit speeches.
Summit 2006
- Todd Davies, Tyler Emerson, and Peter Thiel. Introduction to the Singularity Summit.
- Ray Kurzweil. The Singularity: a hard or soft takeoff?
- Douglas Hofstadter. Trying to muse rationally about the Singularity scenario.
- Nick Bostrom. Artificial Intelligence and existential risks.
- Sebastian Thrun. Toward human-level intelligence in autonomous cars.
- Cory Doctorow. Singularity or Dark Age?.
- K. Eric Drexler. Productive Nanosystems: Toward a Super-Exponential Threshold in Physical Technology.
- Max More. Cognitive and Emotional Singularities: Will Superintelligence come with Superwisdom?
- Christine Peterson. Bringing Humanity and the Biosphere through the Singularity
- John Smart. Searching for the Big Picture: Systems Theories of Accelerating Change
- Eliezer Yudkowsky. The Human Importance of the Intelligence Explosion.
- Bill McKibben. Being good enough.
- Ray Kurzweil. Follow up.
- Panel Discussion and Q&A.
- Panel Discussion and Q&A pt. 2.
Summit 2007
- Tyler Emerson & Peter Thiel. Welcome and introduction.
- Rodney Brooks. The Singularity: A Period Not An Event.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky. Introducing the "Singularity": Three Major Schools of Thought.
- Barney Pell. Pathways to Advanced General Intelligence: Architecture, Development, and Funding.
- Wendell Wallach. Superstition and Forgetfulness - Two Essentials for Artificial General Intelligence.
- Barney Pell, Wendell Wallach, Sam Adams. First panel discussion.
- Jamais Cascio. Metaverse Singularity.
- Stephen M. Omohundro. The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence.
- Peter Voss. Improved intelligence, improved life.
- Stephen M. Omohundro, Peter Voss. Second panel discussion.
- Neil Jacobstein. Innovative Applications of Early Stage AI.
- Ben Goertzel. Nine Years to a Positive Singularity - If We Really, Really Try.
- Paul Saffo. Machines of Loving Grace: Anticipating Advanced AI.
- Neil Jacobstein, Ben Goertzel, Paul Saffo. Third panel discussion.
- Peter Norvig. The history and future of technological change.
- J. Storrs Hall. Asimov's laws of robotics -- revised.
- Peter Thiel. Financial markets and the Singularity.
- Charles L. Harper, Jr. Superintelligence, the "Dilemma of Power," and the transformation of desire.
- J. Storrs Hall, Peter Thiel, Charles L. Harper, Jr. Third panel discussion.
- Steve Jurvetson. Dichotomy of designed and evolutionary paths to AI futures.
- Christine L. Peterson. Preparing for bizarreness: open source physical security.
- James Hughes. Waiting for the Great Leap...Forward?
- Eliezer Yudkowsky. The Challenge of Friendly AI.
- Christine L. Peterson, James Hughes, Eliezer Yudkowsky. A dialogue with Ray Kurzweil.
Summit 2008
- Vernor Vinge and Bob Pisani. Conversation on the Singularity.
- Esther Dyson. 23andme and personal genomics.
- James Miller. Societal reactions to the Singularity.
- Eric Baum. AI and the problem of understanding.
- Dharmendra Modha. IBM's research into Whole Brain Emulation.
- Ben Goertzel. OpenCog -- an open source AGI project.
- Marshall Brain. Robotics and structural unemployment.
- Cynthia Breazeal. Social robots.
- Ray Kurzweil, Glen Zorpette and John Horgan. Debate on the Singularity.
- Pete Estep. The InnerSpace Foundation.
- Neil Gershenfeld. Alternate models of computing.
- Peter Diamandis. History of the X Prize Foundation and future X Prizes.
- Ray Kurzweil. Exponential progress in information technologies.
- Justin Rattner. Intel and the continuous of Moore's law.
- Nova Spivack. Collective intelligence and the emerging global brain.
Summit 2009
- Michael Vassar. Introduction.
- Anna Salamon. Shaping the intelligence explosion.
- Anders Sandberg. Technical roadmap for whole brain emulation.
- Randal Koene. The time is now: as a species we need whole brain emulation.
- Itamar Arel. Technological convergence leading to artificial general intelligence.
- Ben Goertzel. Pathways to beneficial artificial general intelligence.
- Stuart Hameroff. Neural substrates of consciousness and the 'conscious pilot' model.
- David Chalmers. Simulation and the singularity.
- Gary Drescher. Choice machines, causality, and cooperation.
- Ed Boyden. Synthetic neurobiology: optically engineering the brain to augment its function.
- Marcus Hutter. Foundations of intelligent agents.
- William Dickens. Cognitive ability: past and future enhancements and implications.
- Ray Kurzweil. The ubiquity and predictability of the exponential growth of information technology.
- Bela Nagy. More than Moore: comparing forecasts of technological progress.
- Robin Hanson. How does society identify experts, and when does it work?
- Panel: Future of scientific method.
- Gregory Benford. Artificial biological selection for longevity.
- Ray Kurzweil. Critics of the singularity.
- Brad Templeton. The finger of AI: Automated electrical vehicles and oil independence.
- Gary Marcus. The fallibility and improvability of the human mind.
- Peter Thiel. Macroeconomics and singularity.
- Aubrey de Grey. The Singularity and the Methuselarity: similarities and differences.
- Thiel, Yudkowsky & de Grey panel: Changing the world.
- Anna Salamon. How much it matters to know what matters: A back of the envelope calculation.
- Gary Wolf. The petaflop macroscope.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky. Cognitive biases and giant risks.
- Jurgen Schmidhuber. Compression progress: The algorithmic principle behind curiosity and creativity.
- Thiel, Rose & Gorenberg Panel: Venture capitalism.
- Michael Nielsen. Quantum computing: What it is, what it is not, what we have yet to learn.
- Michael Nielsen. Collaborative networks in scientific discovery.
- Stephen Wolfram. Conversation on the singularity.
Summit 2010
- Michael Vassar. The Darwinian method.
- Gregory Stock. Evolution of post-human intelligence.
- Ray Kurzweil. The mind and how to build one.
- Ben Goertzel. AI against aging.
- Steven Mann. Humanistic intelligence augmentation and mediation.
- Mandayam Srinivasan. Enhancing our bodies and evolving our brains.
- Brian Litt. The past, present and future of brain machine interfaces.
- Demis Hassabis. Combining systems neuroscience and machine learning: a new approach to AGI.
- Terry Sejnowski. Reverse-engineering brains is within reach.
- Dennis Bray. What cells can do that robots can't.
- Terry Sejnowski/Dennis Bray debate: Will we soon realistically emulate biological systems?.
- Ramez Naam. The digital biome.
- Lance Becker. Modifying the boundary between life and death.
- Ellen Heber-Katz. The MRL mouse - how it regenerates and how we might do the same.
- Shane Legg. Universal measures of intelligence.
- John Tooby. Can discovering the design principles governing natural intelligence unleash breakthroughs in AI?.
- Tooby, Goertzel, Yudkowsky & Legg panel. Narrow and General Intelligence.
- David Hanson. David Hanson: Why Characters Are Key to Friendly A.I..
- Irene Pepperberg. Irene Pepperberg: Nonhuman Intelligence: Where we are and where we're headed.
- James Randi. Is there such a thing as scientific consensus?
Summit 2011
- Ray Kurzweil. From Eliza to Watson to passing the Turing Test.
- Stephen Badylak. Regenerative medicine: possibilities and potential.
- Sonia Arrison. 100 Plus: how the coming age of longevity will change everything, from careers and relationships to family and faith.
- Peter Thiel. Back to the future.
- James McLurkin. The future of robotics is swarms: why a thousand robots are better than one.
- Michael Shermer. Social Singularity: transitioning from civilization 1.0 to 2.0.
- Jason Silva. The 'Undivided Mind' — science and imagination.
- Stephen Wolfram. Computation and the future of mankind.
- Dmitry Itskov. Project 'Immortality 2045' -- Russian experience.
- Christof Koch. The neurobiology and mathematics of consciousness.
- Eliezer Yudkowsky. Open problems in friendly artificial intelligence.
- Max Tegmark. The future of life: a cosmic perspective.
- Alexander Wissner-Gross. Planetary-scale intelligence.
- Sharon Bertsch McGrayne. A History of Bayes theorem.
- David Brin. So you want to make gods. Now why would that bother anybody?
- Tyler Cowen. The Great Stagnation.
- Tyler Cowen & Michael Vassar. Debate on the Great Stagnation.
- John Mauldin. The endgame meets The millennium wave — why the economic crisis will be history as we create the future.
- Riley Crane. Rethinking communication.
- Dileep George and Scott Brown. From planes to brains: building AI the Wright way.
- Jaan Tallinn. Balancing the trichotomy: individual vs. society vs. universe.
- David Ferrucci. Watson AI perceptions.
- Dan Cerutti. Commercializing Watson.
- Ken Jennings. The human brain in Jeopardy: computers that 'think'.
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