This morning I passed my PhD defence… making me now Dr. Legg. Soon I’ll upload my thesis “Machine Super Intelligence” to lulu.com where you will be able to pick up a printed copy at cost if you’re interested.
And in other news, I’ve been awarded a grant to study machine learning and theoretical neuroscience at the Gatsby Unit, University College London. I should start that in January and be there for two years. For the meantime I’ll remain at the Swiss Finance Institute working on portfolio choice models.
8 responses so far ↓
1 Vladimir Nesov // Jun 17, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Congratulations! Didn’t take infinite knowledge and infinite time, did it?
2 Vladimir Golovin // Jun 17, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Shane, will there be a PDF version? I enjoyed your 2007 paper on definitions of intelligence, and I would definitely like to take a look at the thesis.
3 David McFadzean // Jun 17, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Congrats! I’m very much looking forward to reading your thesis.
4 Stephen Donnelly // Jun 17, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Congratulations Dr Legg!
It will be nice to have a contact on the ‘inside’ of the singularity
5 Rainer // Jun 18, 2008 at 12:26 am
congrats Dr Legg
6 irv // Jun 19, 2008 at 7:11 am
congrats! btw there was very popular soap character in the UK called “Dr Legg”
7 Shane Legg // Jun 20, 2008 at 11:52 pm
@ Vladimir Golovin:
I’m going to put out a lulu version soon and then a pdf sometime later this year. I’d like to encourage people to get the book and read it and think about it carefully, rather than just print out the pdf and have a quick flick through a few parts.
8 Shane Legg // Jun 20, 2008 at 11:58 pm
@ irv:
Yes, I’ve heard of Dr. Legg on EastEnders. Indeed, I’ll soon be living in London myself… though probably not in the East End.
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