Barney to speak at the Singularity Summit
The Singularity Institute is hosting the Singularity Summit] in San Francisco on September 8-9. Dr. Barney Pell, Powerset’s own CEO, will be presenting in the first session called “What are the Pathways and Major Challenges.” In his talk, Barney will predict that the path to Artificial General Inteligence (AGI) will be based on a rich interplay in which top-down engineering and bottom-up brain simulation approaches meet in the middle. He’ll also talk about the role of economics in accelerating the development of AI systems. Powerset is actually an example of this: once natural language becomes a part of core search, companies will invest large funds in natural language technologies, dwarfing historical investments to date. If you want to read more, you can get your tickets today (only $50!) or read Barney’s more detailed blog post or even listen to Barney’s interview with Dan Farber. We hope to see you there!
