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Author Archives: Shane
AGI 2010
The third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence will be taking place in Lugano, Switzerland from Friday the 5th to Monday the 8th of March (the picture on the front page of my website is of Lugano). The keynote speaker is … Continue reading
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
Halloween lecture online
My Halloween lecture has been uploaded to youtube. The basic outline is: * what is intelligence? * Solomonoff induction * Hutter’s AIXI * Monte Carlo AIXI (here’s the missing video of it playing pac-man) * universal intelligence measure * what … Continue reading
Posted in Research Review
Tagged AGI, AIXI, Friendly AI, intelligence, Neuroscience, Singularity
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I’m speaking at Extrobritannia
On Saturday the 31st of October, I’m going to be the speaker at Extrobritannia here in London. I went along to their last meeting and it was totally packed out, nearly a hundred people I believe. Having both Dr. Aubrey … Continue reading
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Post-singularity summit
With the summit still fresh in my mind I thought I’d put a bit of a summary together — or perhaps more a collection of random thoughts and observations. For a less personal overview, read the Reason magazine article. What … Continue reading
Posted in Singularity
Tagged AGI, New York, Peter Thiel, SIAI, Singularity, Singularity Summit
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US visa waiver scam
I got scammed online. I guess it was just a matter of time, but I’d thought that I was smart enough to avoid such things. It’s a pretty slick scam, here’s how it works: To visit the US from many … Continue reading
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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
Creating deliberately evil AGI
It was just a matter of time before somebody started working on something like this. Amusement aside, I’m impressed that Prof. Bringsjord managed to make a magazine as serious as Scientific American with this topic. In order to make a … Continue reading
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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