Monthly Archives: February 2008

Gatsby Unit visit

I’ve been invited to give a talk next week at the Gatsby Unit in London. Gatsby is known around the world for its research into theoretical neuroscience, computational neuroscience and machine learning. It’s home to famous researchers such as Peter … Continue reading

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Graphene Transistors

Just read an interesting little article on graphene transistors. I’d never even heard of them before, apparently it’s the stuff that’s in your pencil. Anyway, with a bit of work you can make amazing transistors with it. …electrons move through … Continue reading

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AI progress, or not?

Once again Kurzweil has hit the mainstream media: this time an article on the BBC. It’s currently the “most emailed” article on the website, so it’s getting a good share of attention. Although he influenced me strongly many years ago, … Continue reading

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Universal Intelligence

I’m getting a steady trickle of positive feed back from universities around the world about my limits of prediction paper and the paper I wrote with Marcus Hutter on universal intelligence. I had imagined that this kind of work would … Continue reading

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Remind me never to write another book

My PhD thesis is now going through the final check by Marcus and should soon go to my committee. It took such a lot of time and effort to write; remind me never to write another book. When I put … Continue reading

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