The other day a group of Gatsby PhD students were debating whether machine learning existed before the mid 90′s. Clearly it did, even if you want to take a restricted view of what belongs to this category. Nevertheless, the fact that this was being discussed at all, and by people who spend the majority of their working days studying the subject, highlights how much the field has developed over the last 15 years.
I’m a bit busy for blogging at the moment, but I will be at AGI 2010 this weekend. I’ll also be giving a talk at Oxford next week on how developments in theoretical neuroscience are giving us significant insights into AGI design.