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 neuroscience can teach us about AGI design
* early 2020’s: the Halloween scenario
You can get the slides here. I [...]
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 is perhaps perfect for the job. I saw recently that the Monte Carlo [...]
My thesis is now available at lulu.com. As promised, it’s at cost, which works out at $18 plus shipping. It’s all under a creative commons licence and in a few months I’ll put the pdf online for free. I’ll also write a post shortly on all the tricks involved in publishing on lulu.com with LaTeX, [...]
Many people seem to have questions about Kolmogorov complexity, Solomonoff induction, algorithmic probability theory, AIXI, the universal intelligence measure and so on. I don’t always have time to watch all the email lists where these things get discussed, but if you do have any questions, concerns, etc. that you’d like to put to me, feel [...]
This morning I received the wonderful news that I’ve won the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence – Canada Academic Prize for 2008!
The award is in “recognition of [my] efforts to improve AI theory” and is worth CAD $10,000. This will certainly help my budget over the next two years while I study at the Gatsby [...]