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Neil Armstrong
“I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer” — Neil Armstrong, 2000 On the topic of space, I thought this video from the ISS was spectacular. Flying over the aurora borealis is just magic.
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Goodbye 2011, hello 2012
I’ve decided to once again leave my prediction for when human level AGI will arrive unchanged. That is, I give it a log-normal distribution with a mean of 2028 and a mode of 2025, under the assumption that nothing crazy … Continue reading
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AIQ
Some of you might remember the talk I gave at the 2010 Singularity Summit about Algorithmic IQ, or AIQ for short. It was an attempt to convert the theoretical Universal Intelligence Measure into a working practical test of machine intelligence. … Continue reading
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Sutton on human level AI
Prof. Rich Sutton, probably the most famous person in the field of reinforcement learning, gave a talk today at the Gatsby Unit. I was expecting a standard introduction to reinforcement learning to begin with, but it wasn’t to be. Instead … Continue reading
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Technological themes
Looking over my predictions for the teenies from a year ago, they already look pretty lame. Take 1/3 off USA’s PPP GDP and you already get China, the latest Sony portable device has a 4 core processor, Intel’s latest set … Continue reading
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Goodbye 2010
Well, well, another year is drawing to a close. That means it’s once again time to review what has happened and where things are going. It’s been a very eventful year for me, both personally and on the work front. … Continue reading
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Summit 2010
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
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Short film by Alex Roman
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
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The Teenies
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
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The Noughties
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
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