The conference Beyond AI 2012: Artificial Dreams was held in Pilsen, November 5-6, 2012.
The second annual international conference Beyond AI focused on interdisciplinary and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence. The aim of this year was to question deep-rooted ideas of artificial intelligence and cast critical reflection on methods standing at its foundations. Artificial Dreams epitomize our controversial quest for non-biological intelligence, and therefore we encouraged the authors to fully exploit this controversy in their papers.