IIIM director Dr. Kristinn R. Thorosson gives Plenary Speech at the annual AISB Convention at the university of Sheffield, England.

The conference, which was held April 4-6, covers the range of AI and Cognitive Science and is organized by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour.

Dr. Thorisson’s lecture, tilted A New Kind of Artificial Intelligence: Model-Based Constructivist Recursive Self-Improvement, was extremely well received. He presented recent work on artificial general intelligence (AGI) that his group and collaborators have developed in the past few years, that demonstrates new methodological and engineering principles for building intelligent robots that learn complex tasks on their own. The work addresses extremely difficult challenges that has eluded the field of artificial intelligence since the field’s inception around the middle of the 20th century. See more in lecture’s abstract.