Tag Archives: AIXI

Halloween lecture online

Posted on 1 November, 2009 by Shane Legg

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 →

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Monte Carlo AIXI

Posted on 18 September, 2009 by Shane Legg

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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Machine Super Intelligence

Posted on 10 July, 2008 by Shane Legg

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 … Continue reading →

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Kolmogorov, Solomonoff, AIXI etc. questions

Posted on 25 June, 2008 by Shane Legg

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 … Continue reading →

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SIAI Canada Academic Prize for 2008

Posted on 23 June, 2008 by Shane Legg

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 … Continue reading →

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