Category Archives: Research Review

1973 Lighthill debate

Posted on 9 November, 2009 by Shane

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 →

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Monte Carlo AIXI

Posted on 18 September, 2009 by Shane

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 →

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