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Tag Archives: Singularity
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
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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
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Tagged AGI, New York, Peter Thiel, SIAI, Singularity, Singularity Summit
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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
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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
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
2.4 Tera FLOPS per card
Remember when I was raving about nVidia’s new GTX 280 graphics card that crunches 1 Tera FLOPS? Yeah, well, that was 3 weeks ago. Today, Radeon’s new HD 4870 X2 graphics card has 1600 stream processors that crunch 2.4 Tera … Continue reading
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Tagged Computer Power, Hardware, Singularity, Supercomputers
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SIAI Canada Academic Prize for 2008
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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Tagged AGI, AIXI, Friendly AI, PhD, Singularity, Universal Intelligence
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Neural networks with Nvidia CUDA
If Roadrunner is a bit beyond your budget, simulating neural networks with GPUs might be an option: The next generation of Nvidia GPUs will support enhancements such as double precision floating point in order to make them more suitable for … Continue reading
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Tagged Computer Power, Hardware, Neural Networks, Neuroscience, nVidia, Singularity, Supercomputers
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Thinking about ethical AGI, part 2
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 … Continue reading
Finance and the singularity
I found Peter Thiel’s talk from the 2007 Singularity Summit interesting. Are rapid technological changes a driving force behind some of the world’s financial turbalance? Perhaps the dot-com bubble was a case of pre-singularity jitters?