Artificial Intelligence

Modeling & mitigating spread of disease: International Journal of Artificial Life Research

Updated: 2010-03-09 07:00:00

Call for Papers International Journal of Artificial Life Research Special Issue on Modeling and miti

MIT Professor and Cosmologist Max Tegmark Joins SIAI Advisory Board

Updated: 2010-03-04 00:06:48

The Singularity Institute is pleased to welcome Max Tegmark, professor at MIT and a cosmologist as the newest member of our greatly valued advisory board. Prof. Tegmark has done pioneering research in precision cosmology, “combining theoretical work with new measurements to place sharp constraints on cosmological models and their free parameters”. A [...]

2010 Singularity Research Challenge Fulfilled!

Updated: 2010-03-02 06:26:45

Thanks to our donors, yesterday we met our fundraising goal of $100,000 for the 2010 Singularity Research Challenge. SIAI would like to thank the grant’s matching donors and everyone who contributed. Every donation, however small, funds research and advocacy targeted towards maximizing the probability of a positive Singularity. If you have any [...]

Yahoo! ML events

Updated: 2010-02-26 18:40:06

Yahoo! is sponsoring two machine learning events that might interest people. The Key Scientific Challenges program (due March 5) for Machine Learning and Statistics offers $5K (plus bonuses) for graduate students working on a core problem of interest to Y! If you are already working on one of these problems, there is no [...]

Last Chance to Contribute to 2010 Singularity Research Challenge!

Updated: 2010-02-26 01:26:11

Thanks to generous contributions by our donors, we are only $11,840 away from fulfilling our $100,000 goal for the 2010 Singularity Research Challenge. For every dollar you contribute to SIAI, another dollar is contributed by our matching donors, who have pledged to match all contributions made before February 28th up to $100,000. That [...]

Only $23K to Go for 2010 Singularity Research Challenge!

Updated: 2010-02-16 05:14:28

The 2010 Singularity Research Challenge campaign has been going well, with $77,080 raised so far. Including matching funds, that comes to $154,160 raised for SIAI since we began the Challenge! Thanks to these contributions, SIAI’s continued operations and growth will be ensured for the immediate future. This money will support our staff, [...]

Controlled by robots

Updated: 2010-02-12 11:46:18

The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, is taking a different approach to

Correctly predicted: Major stores adopt augmented reality

Updated: 2010-02-11 01:10:11

The latest results are in for my augmented reality prediction series. I’m sure you’ll like this one. It came true. Oh yes. Prediction & results Predicted on August 28th, 2009: “In January, 2010 the first major store announces mobile AR support; possibly an app that indicates product locations in shelves, or one that shows information about products. [...]

New Staff Bios Added to Team Page

Updated: 2010-02-06 01:29:00

New staff bios have been added to SIAI’s team page: short bios for Research Fellows Anna Salamon and Steve Rayhawk, Media Director Michael Anissimov, and Chief Compliance Officer Amy Willey. Check them out, and feel free to ask if you’re interested in knowing more about what each staff member does.

Which Consequentialism? Machine Ethics and Moral Divergence

Updated: 2010-02-05 07:53:57

Here’s a extended abstract presented at the 2009 Asia-Pacific Conference on Computing and Philosophy by participants in SIAI’s 2009 Visiting Fellows Program that is making the rounds. The point of the paper, which was written by Carl Shulman, Nick Tarleton, and Henrik Jonsson, is that consequentialism as commonly discussed has a number of “free [...]