Hugo de Garis

Professor, Wuhan University

Hugo de Garis is associate professor of computer science and adjunct professor of theoretical physics at Utah State University. He is teaching the world's first PhD course on artificial brain building and frontiers of computing, including quantum computing, nanotechnology, quantum dots, molecular computing, reversible computing, and membrane computing, cellular computing. He founded the research field of evolovable hardware in 1992 and evolves neural net circuits directly in hardware at hardware speeds to build artificial brains. He also serves as a scientific advisor for Novamente LLC, a company that creates artificial agents for online virtual worlds.

Dr. de Garis presented at the AGI-08 conference on "The China-Brain Project: Building China's Artificial Brain Using An Evolved Neural Net Module Approach." His presentation was based on his experience as head of the Artificial Intelligence Group at the International School of Software at Wuhan University, China. At the workshop session following the conference, Dr. de Garis offered a brief introduction to his concept of a looming Artilect War, described as "a bitter controversy concerning whether humanity should build godlike massively intelligent machines."

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2000. "Brain Child," Discovery Channel

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2008, AGI-08 Post-Conference Workshop, The Artilect War
2008, AGI-08, The China-Brain Project
2008, Building Gods Rough Cut
BBC, Human V 2.0 Part One
2006 AGIRI Workshop, What are the Bottlenecks and how soon to AGI?
2006 AGIRI Workshop, How do we more greatly ensure responsible AGI?

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AGI-08 post-conference workshop, The Artilect War
AGI-08 Conference, The China Brain Project