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
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- 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
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Japanese