• Machine Learning Protests at the G20

    Updated: 2009-09-29 19:59:56
    The machine learning department at CMU turned out en masse to protest the G20 summit in Pittsburgh. Arthur Gretton uploaded some great photos covering the event

  • Intelligent systems of 1994; Hrafn visits the MIT Media Lab

    Updated: 2009-09-25 14:56:00
    My Reykjavik University Aperio advisor surprised me yesterday when he mentioned how cool I was in that YouTube video. I had no idea what the hell he was going on about and made an expression similar to those in surprise-photo-shoots. As the expression wore off he explained my brother had uploaded a video of my [...]

  • Necessary and Sufficient Research

    Updated: 2009-09-18 20:02:12
    Researchers are typically confronted with big problems that they have no idea how to solve. In trying to come up with a solution, a natural approach is to decompose the big problem into a set of subproblems whose solution yields a solution to the larger problem. This approach can go wrong in several [...]

  • Growth of SIAI Supporters on Facebook

    Updated: 2009-09-17 08:50:44
    The SIAI cause group on Facebook has recently surpassed 1,000 members. Join now to support our mission.

  • David Orban Interviews Itamar Arel on Artificial General Intelligence for Singularity Summit 2009

    Updated: 2009-09-17 01:44:23
    See the video on YouTube. Arel claims that AGI could be possible within 10 years if there were enough focus and funding on the problem. He also claims that the basic breakthroughs for AGI have already been made.

  • microsoft codeplex

    Updated: 2009-09-15 12:22:08
    Login About Software Forum Blog Workshop FAQ Open Thoughts Latest Thoughts Open-source Software for Scientific Computation by Cheng Soon Ong on September 18, 2009 microsoft codeplex by Cheng Soon Ong on September 15, 2009 Netflix : part 1 by Cheng Soon Ong on August 10, 2009 PLoS to publish software by Cheng Soon Ong on August 8, 2009 A Machine Learning Forum by Cheng Soon Ong on July 21, 2009 Getting rid of Spam by Soeren Sonnenburg on July 13, 2009 Replicability is not Reproducibility : Nor is it Good Science by Chris Drummond on July 13, 2009 GCC Machine Learning by Cheng Soon Ong on July 5, 2009 Open Science in Machine Learning by Cheng Soon Ong on June 16, 2009 Open Source in Astronomy by Cheng Soon Ong on June 4, 2009 Archive 2008 2009 Recent forum posts Forum Website design Thread Enhanced statistics . Well , it is not that easy . I mean we could definitely only count hits' if cookies are enabled and by sonne on June 23, 2009 Forum General Discussion Thread Open Source Conference The submission deadline has been moved to 7th July 2009. by ong on June 29, 2009 Forum Standards Thread file format for data exchange This train may have passed , but here's another limitation of

  • Ephemerisle — A Floating Festival in the SF Bay Area

    Updated: 2009-09-11 11:53:01
    Patri Friedman, Executive Director of the Seasteading Institute and a friend of SIAI, invites SIAI supporters to attend his organization’s conference, from September 28 - 30 in San Francisco, and Ephemerisle, a “floating festival of politics, community, and art”, in the Sacramento River Delta on October 2-4.

  • Ed Boyden on the Singularity in Technology Review

    Updated: 2009-09-10 23:45:33
    Ed Boyden, who leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group at MIT, is concerned about the Singularity, and will be speaking at our upcoming Singularity Summit conference in New York. He recently published the article “The Singularity and the Fixed Point” on the website of Technology Review, MIT’s magazine, which looks into the challenge of giving [...]

  • More predictions and a new page to list them

    Updated: 2009-08-28 16:42:31
    Correct prediction Undetermined Wrong prediction Today we’re launching a special page to store past and present predictions regarding future technology developments. At the moment all are in the area of augmented reality. Below is a list of new predictions; the complete list can be found on the new Predictions page. The page can also be accessed through its [...]

  • New York Area Machine Learning Events

    Updated: 2009-08-27 01:46:39
    Several events are happening in the NY area. Barriers in Computational Learning Theory Workshop, Aug 28. That’s tomorrow near Princeton. I’m looking forward to speaking at this one on “Getting around Barriers in Learning Theory”, but several other talks are of interest, particularly to the CS theory inclined. Claudia Perlich is running the INFORMS Data [...]

  • Another 10-year paper in Machine Learning

    Updated: 2009-08-26 17:53:37
    When I was thinking about the best “10 year paper” for ICML, I also took a look at a few other conferences. Here is one from 10 years ago that interested me: David McAllester PAC-Bayesian Model Averaging, COLT 1999. 2001 Journal Draft. Prior to this paper, the only mechanism known for controlling or [...]

  • The End of Aging - An Evening with Aubrey de Grey

    Updated: 2009-08-19 02:17:20
    The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence is co-sponsoring a talk on ending aging with gerontology researcher Aubrey de Grey and the New York Academy of Sciences, on the evening of Tuesday, September 22nd in New York City. The End of Aging An Evening with Aubrey de Grey September 22, 2009 | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM At the New [...]

  • Centmail comments

    Updated: 2009-08-16 14:52:46
    Centmail is a scheme which makes charity donations have a secondary value, as a stamp for email. When discussed on newscientist, slashdot, and others, some of the comments make the academic review process appear thoughtful . Some prominent fallacies are: Costing money fallacy. Some commenters appear to believe the system charges money [...]

  • Singularity Summit 2009 Early Registration Extended

    Updated: 2009-08-07 00:58:09
    We have extended the early bird registration deadline for the Summit from August 10th to August 20th. Register in the next two weeks for a ticket fee of $399 instead of $498. You can lower your registration costs further by mentioning the event in your blog or Twitter ($25 off), putting up a [...]

  • Singularity Summit 2009 Discounts

    Updated: 2009-08-06 01:57:22
    In anticipation of our upcoming event in New York, the fourth annual Singularity Summit, the Singularity Institute is offering a set of discounts. The most important is early registration, 20% off until August 10th, making registration $399 instead of the usual $498. Other discounts include: - Students receive a 20% discount. Only 150 student [...]

  • Carbon in Computer Science Research

    Updated: 2009-08-03 18:10:36
    Al Gore’s film and gradually more assertive and thorough science has managed to mostly shift the debate on climate change from “Is it happening?” to “What should be done?” In that context, it’s worthwhile to think a bit about what can be done within computer science research. There are two things we can think about: Doing [...]

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