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Ray Solomonoff
A little over a week ago I felt rather honoured to be reviewing a new submission by a living legend of artificial intelligence, Ray Solomonoff. Sadly the great man passed away just two days later, at the age of 83. … Continue reading
Tick, tock, tick, tock… BING
Am I the only one who, upon hearing the year 2010, imagines some date far off in the future? I think I felt the same way in the weeks before 2000, so I’m sure it will pass. Anyway, another year … Continue reading
Posted in Singularity
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1973 Lighthill debate
Some of you might know about the Lighthill report from 1973 which was deeply critical of progress in AI. This report was the main factor behind cutting the funding of AI research in the UK, and seems to have contributed … Continue reading
Monte Carlo AIXI
While I was visiting Marcus Hutter at ANU a month or so ago, I got talking to one of his students, Joel Veness, who’s working on making computable approximations to AIXI. Joel has a background in writing Go algorithms so … Continue reading
Tokyo: A Cython BLAS wrapper for fast matrix math
Prototyping mathematical code in Python with the Scipy/Numpy libraries and then switching to Cython for speed often works well, but there are limitations. The main problem that has been bugging me recently is the speed of matrix function calls. What … Continue reading
Funding safe AGI
From time to time people contact me wanting to know what I think about whether they should donate money to SIAI. My usual answer is something like, “I am not involved with what happens inside the organisation so I don’t … Continue reading
Prospect theory investors
I recently completed a finance paper on the implications of prospect theory for portfolio choice and asset pricing. I worked on this with Prof. Enrico De Giorgi during my post doc at the Swiss Finance Institute. This post is meant … Continue reading
Most surprising thing since 1999?
I just read this article on the scale of time by Mike Treder. Part the way through it has an interesting question: What would surprise a person from the year 2000 most about the year 2010? As I don’t know … Continue reading
On universal intelligence
It’s been a while since my journal paper on universal intelligence came out, and even longer since the intelligence order relation was published by Hutter that this was based on. Since then there have been a number of reactions; here … Continue reading
Posted in My Research
Tagged intelligence, Kolmogorov Complexity, Universal Intelligence
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The innovator’s dilemma
The way in which technological change occurs in industries has always interested me. One quite well known book on this subject is “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by Clayton M. Christensen. Here’s a nice post on a friend’s blog that summarises the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Economics, Hardware, Start-up
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