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Singularity Summit
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The Singularity Summit was the annual conference of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. It was started in 2006 at Stanford Universitycite-ref-1[1]cite-ref-2[2] by Ray Kurzweil, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Peter Thiel, and the subsequent summits in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 have been held in San Francisco, San Jose, New York City, San Francisco, New York City, and San Francisco respectively. Some speakers have included Sebastian Thrun, Rodney Brooks, Barney Pell, Marshall Brain, Justin Rattner, Peter Diamandis, Stephen Wolfram, Gregory Benford, Robin Hanson, Anders Sandberg, Juergen Schmidhuber, Aubrey de Grey, Max Tegmark, and Michael Shermer.

There have also been spinoff conferences in Melbourne, Australia in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Previous speakers include David Chalmers, Lawrence Krauss, Gregory Benford, Ben Goertzel, Steve Omohundro, Hugo de Garis, Marcus Hutter, Mark Pesce, Stelarc and Randal A. Koene.

Contents

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012

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2006

The first Singularity Summit took place in 2006 at Stanford University.

Speakerscite-ref-miri-3-0[3]


2007

The second Singularity Summit took place in 2007 in San Francisco.

Speakerscite-ref-miri-3-1[3]


2008

The 2008 Singularity Summit took place in San Jose.

Speakerscite-ref-miri-3-2[3]


2009
2010
2011

The 2011 Singularity Summit took place in New York on October 15 and 16, 2011.

Speakerscite-ref-miri-3-5[3]


2012

The 2012 Singularity Summit took place on October 13–14, at Nob Hill Masonic Center, San Francisco.

Speakerscite-ref-miri-3-6[3]


References

cite-note-11. citerefabate2006Abate, Tony (May 12, 2006). "Smarter than thou? Stanford conference ponders a brave new world with machines more powerful than their creators". San Francisco Chronicle. p. D1. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
cite-note-22. citereftaylor2006Taylor, Chris (June 14, 2006). "Readying a radical business plan". Business 2.0 Magazine. CNN. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
cite-note-miri-33. Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) Singularity Summit Speakers: 2006 to 2012

Further reading

• citerefgrossman2008Grossman, Wendy M. (November 12, 2008). "Intel's Rattner says the machines will get us in the end". The Inquirer. Archived from the original on August 9, 2009. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
• citerefkleffel2007Kleffel, Rick (December 2, 2007). "Artificial Intelligence Enters Brave New World". NPR. Retrieved March 10, 2012.
• citerefwohlsen2007Wohlsen, Marcus (September 9, 2007). "What will happen when machines outthink us?". NBC News. The Associated Press. Retrieved March 10, 2012.

External links

• Archived official website
• The Singularity Summit at Stanford, 2006
• The Singularity Summit Australia, 2012
• The Singularity Summit Australia, 2011
• The Singularity Summit Australia, 2010