WBAI sponsors the “Animal-AI Olympics” (AAO) competition (organized by Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence) being held in 2019 to recreate the intelligence of animals.  The second  local meet-up for AAO was held in Tokyo on October 4th in cooperation with Couger corporation, the venture developer of anthropomorphic AI assistants.  (The article of the first meet-up is here.)

More than 20 people participated in the event, including the keynote speech by Benjamin Beyret from CFI/Imperial College London and panel discussion.

Event Details

• • Date/Time: October 4th, Friday, 19:00-22:00
  • Venue: BINARYSTAR @Ginza, Tokyo
  • Fee: Gratuit
  • Organizers: WBAI × Couger
  • Announce page @Meetup.com

Program

Time	Content	Speakers
19:15	Opening	Atsushi Ishii, CEO Couger Inc. (slides)
19:25	Keynote Speech	Benjamin Beyret (Imperial College London/CFI, an Organising Committee member of AAO) (video)
20:00	Awarding	Among the attended AAO participating teams, the leading three teams at the Leader Board at noon of the day were awarded.
20:05	Issues on participating AAO	Keita Yanome (Digital Hollywood Graduate School), Hiroshi Hashimoto (Tsukuba U.), & Jun Yamada (University College London)
20:25	Points around aiming the WBA Prize	Hiroshi Yamakawa (Representative of the Whole Brain Architecture Initiative) (slides)
20:40	Panel Discussion	Masayoshi Nakamura (Preferred Networks Inc., Engineer), Naoto Yoshida (GROOVE X, Research Engineer), Keita Yanome (Digital Hollywood Graduate School), Jun Yamada (University College London), Akira Hashimoto (Tsukuba University) Moderator: Hiroshi Yamakawa (Representative of WBAI)
21:10	Q&A
21:25	Member recruiting
21:30	Reception
22:00	Closing

Material

• Overall Video (in Japanese)
• Keynote Speech Video
• Animal-AI Olympics participants and ranking

 

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