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 [...]
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 I will remember most clearly about this summit was Peter Thiel. Firstly, the [...]
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 cerebral cortex it would be able to allocate 50 bytes of RAM and 700 calculations [...]
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 own science fiction, but then taking it a step further by convincing yourself to actually [...]
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 [...]
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 FLOPS.
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 [...]
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 general purpose highly parallel computation. There will also be cards with no graphics interface [...]
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 [...]
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?