• Synthetic Teammate Research

    Updated: 2010-08-25 15:14:55
    The Synthetic Teammate project is conducting research on synthetic agents that can be integrated into team training simulations. Key challenges in advancing this technology are designing and implementing the agents so that the agents closely match human behavior across several cognitive capacities. These capacities include situation assessment, task behavior, language comprehension, and language generation. The [...]

  • Alex Smola starts a blog

    Updated: 2010-08-25 00:44:59
    Adventures in Data Land.

  • Personalized Life Extension Conference, October 9-10, SFO Marriott

    Updated: 2010-08-24 00:57:39
    Chris Peterson, a friend and advisor of SIAI, is holding a personalized life extension conference on October 9-10 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott. Readers of SIAI blog can get $100 off on registration by using the registration code “SIAI”. Here’s the short summary of the purpose of the conference: Advances are being made [...]

  • Boosted Decision Trees for Deep Learning

    Updated: 2010-08-23 18:18:53
    About 4 years ago, I speculated that decision trees qualify as a deep learning algorithm because they can make decisions which are substantially nonlinear in the input representation. Ping Li has proved this correct, empirically at UAI by showing that boosted decision trees can beat deep belief networks on versions of Mnist which are [...]

  • Singularity Summit Australia- Sept. 7, 11, 12, Melbourne

    Updated: 2010-08-23 05:44:12
    The first ever Singularity Summit Australia will be held on September 7th, 11th, and 12th at Casey Plaza at RMIT, Melbourne. Here’s the news release: Singularity Summit 2010 in Melbourne Victoria to explore emerging technological trends Speakers include AI Architect Hugo deGaris, Futurist Peter Ellyard Melbourne Victoria 2010 — Will it be one day become possible to boost [...]

  • KDD 2010

    Updated: 2010-08-23 01:39:07
    There were several papers that seemed fairly interesting at KDD this year. The ones that caught my attention are: Xin Jin, Mingyang Zhang, Nan Zhang, and Gautam Das, Versatile Publishing For Privacy Preservation. This paper provides a conservative method for safely determining which data is publishable from any complete source of information (for example, [...]

  • Rob Schapire at NYC ML Meetup

    Updated: 2010-08-22 03:10:09
    I’ve been wanting to attend the NYC ML Meetup for some time and hope to make it next week on the 25th. Rob Schapire is talking about “Playing Repeated Games”, which in my experience is far more relevant to machine learning than the title might indicate.

  • The Workshop on Cores, Clusters, and Clouds

    Updated: 2010-08-20 15:47:01
    Alekh, John, Ofer, and I are organizing a workshop at NIPS this year on learning in parallel and distributed environments. The general interest level in parallel learning seems to be growing rapidly, so I expect quite a bit of attendance. Please join us if you are parallel-interested. And, if you are working in the [...]

  • Meet the Singularity Summit speakers

    Updated: 2010-07-30 18:12:53
    On the evening of Saturday, August 14th, join us for exciting discussions with Summit Speakers at a cocktail reception hosted by the Singularity Institute. This event will feature the opportunity to meet with speakers at the 2010 Singularity Summit, the world’s premier conference on the technological Singularity, held in San Francisco on August 14th and [...]

  • Singularity Summit 2010 Program Posted

    Updated: 2010-07-29 02:53:03
    The Singularity Summit 2010 is almost here! The full schedule has been posted on the website. Here it is: Day 1: The Future of Human Evolution 8:00 AM - 9:00 Registration starts. Breakfast served outside the hotel by Boudin 9:00 - 9:05 Sean McCabe: Introduction 9:05 - 9:40 Michael Vassar: The Darwinian Method 9:45 - 10:25 Gregory Stock: [...]

  • ICML & COLT 2010

    Updated: 2010-07-18 23:09:43
    The papers which interested me most at ICML and COLT 2010 were: Thomas Walsh, Kaushik Subramanian, Michael Littman and Carlos Diuk Generalizing Apprenticeship Learning across Hypothesis Classes. This paper formalizes and provides algorithms with guarantees for mixed-mode apprenticeship and traditional reinforcement learning algorithms, allowing RL algorithms that perform better than for either setting alone. István Szita [...]

  • Singularity Institute Call for Volunteers

    Updated: 2010-07-13 22:44:25
    Are you interested in reducing existential risk? Are you a student who wants to donate to existential risk reduction, but doesn’t have any money? Are you a past or present Visiting Fellow applicant? Do you want to apply to the Visiting Fellows program, but can’t take time off work or school? If the answer to [...]

  • ALICE Artificial Intelligence and Nicole

    Updated: 2010-07-11 11:17:01
    ALICE Artificial Intelligence and Nicole

  • ASIMOs new artificial intelligence. (ASIMO is learning!)

    Updated: 2010-07-11 10:55:32
    ASIMOs new artificial intelligence. (ASIMO is learning!)

  • Robot Fish

    Updated: 2010-07-11 10:53:42
    Robot Fish

Previous Months Items

Aug 2010 | Jul 2010 | Jun 2010 | May 2010 | Apr 2010 | Mar 2010