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Tag Archives: AGI
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
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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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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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
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
The unreasonable effectiveness of data
We recently had a visitor to the Gatsby Unit talk about his work in reinforcement learning, in particular the use of planning and forward models to speed up the learning of difficult tasks. The substance of his talk was good, … Continue reading
Tick, tock, tick, tock…
I recently read about IBM’s Sequoia supercomputer that will be operational in 2011. It will perform 20 Peta FLOPS and have 1.6 Peta bytes of RAM. To put that in perspective: if it were to attempt to simulation a human … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged AGI, Computer Power, Hardware, Singularity, Supercomputers
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Learning to predict the future
One of the things I’ve been thinking about recently is the prediction of the future. Many people really enjoy doing this and come up with all sorts of wild speculations. It’s kind of like having the liberty to write your … Continue reading
AGI: To create, or not to create?
People interested in the technological singularity often have strangely contradictory attitudes regarding AGI development. On one hand, progress towards AGI in terms of hardware, software, design and theory is all very exciting and generally super cool. Yay, all hail AGI … Continue reading
An imitation test for moral capacity
Yudkowsky has been posting a lot on Overcoming Bias recently about his theory of metaethics. Today he posted a summary of sorts. Essentially he seems to be saying that morality is a big complex function computed by our brain that … Continue reading