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 [...]
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 progress! On the other hand, many of these people, often the very same people, believe [...]
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 doesn’t derive from any single unifying principle. Rather, this function is a mishmash of things [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Currently the foremost thinker on the ethics and safety of artificial general intelligence is Eliezer Yudkowsky of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. On a few occasions I have tried to read some of his writings on this topic. Every time, however, I would give up after about ten pages. I found the ideas [...]