Some of you might know about the Lighthill report from 1973 which was deeply critical of progress in AI. This report was the main factor behind cutting the funding of AI research in the UK, and seems to have contributed to the more global cuts around this time known as the “AI winter”. [...]
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 [...]
It’s been a while since my journal paper on universal intelligence came out, and even longer since the intelligence order relation was published by Hutter that this was based on. Since then there have been a number of reactions; here I will make some comments in response.
One point of contention concerns whether efficiency should [...]