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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 →

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 →

I’ve been very busy with practical AI matters over the last 6 months so the following (crazy?) ideas have been parked in a folder. That’s a bit boring, so I thought I’d throw it out there to see what people … Continue reading →

Seven months ago China claimed the number one position in supercomputing with a 2.6 Peta FLOPS machine.  I thought that might stand for a year, but I was wrong: last week Japan unveiled their new “K Computer” at a massive 8.2 Peta … Continue reading →

Samuel Rathmanner and Marcus Hutter recently wrote a treatise on universal induction.  While there are no proofs, it does get into some fairly deep aspects of the problem of inductive inference.  Download it here: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e13061076    

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →