Author Archives: Shane Legg

Another great Singularity Summit. I liked the focus on neuroscience this time. I think it will be a major driving force behind AGI over the next 20 years. The talk by Demis Hassabis is the one to look for in … Continue reading →

I was notified that copies of my PhD thesis Machine Super Intelligence have been shipping from lulu.com with blank covers. I’ve been in contact with lulu about this and it should now be fixed. Moreover, if you have a received … Continue reading →

It’s Singularity Summit time again. This year the venue will be the San Francisco Hyatt Regency on the 14th and 15th of August. I’ll be talking about how systems neuroscience can inform AGI development efforts, and maybe a little about … Continue reading →

“In 2008, the National Academy of Engineering chose as one of its grand challenges to reverse-engineer the human brain. When will this happen? Some are predicting that the first wave of results will arrive within the decade, propelled by rapid … Continue reading →

AGI 10, Lugano It’s certainly been quite a week. Last Friday I headed back to my old home town of Lugano in Switzerland for the AGI 10 conference. I had a great time. In a way it was a bit … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

It’s long been thought that brain oscillations play a key role in short term memory, though there hasn’t been much empirical evidence to support this. That now seems to have changed with the publication of Phase-dependent neuronal coding of objects … Continue reading →

This short film, The Third & The Seventh, by Alex Roman, is a great example of cutting edge computer graphics.  The airy elegant style reminds me a bit of Kubrick.  I’m not sure what impressed me the most: the wonderful … Continue reading →

I’ve decided to christen the next decade the teenies.  Firstly, I’ve still heard no other suggestions; secondly, it’s phonetically consistent with the noughties and the twenties; and thirdly, the name is so downright awfully bad it’s almost quite good.  So the … Continue reading →

The start of the Noughties for me was Y2K. It was a non-event, thanks, I might add, to people like me making ourselves mentally unwell fixing endless date issues in crappy database code. Next was the massive dot com crash … Continue reading →