Artificial Intelligence....!!!!
Updated: 2010-01-22 11:11:36
Artificial Intelligence, it is something which has always fascinated me. Something un-natural and un- Artificial Intelligence, it is something which has always fascinated me. Something un-natural and un
Deadline Season, 2010
Updated: 2010-01-19 23:37:04Many conference deadlines are coming soon. Deadline Double Blind / Author Feedback Time/Place ICML January 18((workshops) / February 1 (Papers) / February 13 (Tutorials) Y/Y Haifa, Israel, June 21-25 KDD February 1(Workshops) / February 2&5 (Papers) / February 26 (Tutorials & Panels)) / April 17 (Demos) N/S Washington DC, July 25-28 COLT January 18 (Workshops) / February 19 (Papers) N/S Haifa, Israel, June 25-29 UAI March 11 (Papers) N?/Y Catalina Island, California, July 8-11 ICML [...]SIAI Media Director Michael Anissimov on KUSP Radio in Santa Cruz
Updated: 2010-01-06 05:10:16
On Sunday, January 3rd, I did an interview on KUSP in Santa Cruz, California, a National Public Radio affiliate. I talked to Rick Kleffel for an hour about the Singularity, the Singularity Institute, what we do, anthropomorphism, Friendly AI, and the like. It was for his “Talk of the Bay” radio program. [...]Foresight 2010: the Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and AGI
Updated: 2010-01-05 20:35:23The Foresight Institute, an organization close to the Singularity Institute, is holding their 2010 conference at the Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel this January 16-17. Here is the blurb from the website of the conference:
Join us in for an exciting conference focused on the Synergy of Molecular Manufacturing and general Artificial Intelligence and celebrate the [...]Interesting things at NIPS 2010
Updated: 2009-12-27 21:40:19Several papers at NIPS caught my attention. Elad Hazan and Satyen Kale, Online Submodular Optimization They define an algorithm for online optimization of submodular functions with regret guarantees. This places submodular optimization roughly on par with online convex optimization as tractable settings for online learning. Elad Hazan and Satyen Kale On Stochastic and Worst-Case [...]Top graduates this season
Updated: 2009-12-24 22:55:26I would like to point out 3 graduates this season as having my confidence they are capable of doing great things. Daniel Hsu has diverse papers with diverse coauthors on {active learning, mulitlabeling, temporal learning, …} each covering new algorithms and methods of analysis. He is also a capable programmer, having helped me with [...]Announcing the 2010 Singularity Research Challenge
Updated: 2009-12-24 00:52:04Offering unusually good philanthropic returns — meaning greater odds of a positive Singularity and lesser odds of human extinction — the Singularity Institute has launched a new challenge campaign. The sponsors, Edwin Evans, Rolf Nelson, Henrik Jonsson, Jason Joachim, and Robert Lecnik, have generously put up $100,000 of matching funds, so that every donation you [...]2009 SIAI Accomplishments
Updated: 2009-12-24 00:48:092009 has been a year of growth and new horizons for the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). We achieved a number of milestones relevant to our mission — pursuing dialogue, research, and activism to promote a beneficial Singularity. The response we’ve received has been considerable — SIAI is more high-profile and frequently-mentioned [...]Regarding predictions: Mobile phones becoming powerful tool when shopping
Updated: 2009-12-18 18:09:36It looks like the predicted adaptation of augmented reality by major stores could happen sooner than expected. The New York Times has a piece today titled Mobile Phones Become Essential Tool to Holiday Shopping. In it they discuss consumer use of phones in to shop online and offline; scanning barcodes, comparing prices and, upon finding [...]Mathematically Predicting the Arrival of Human-Level Artificial Intelligence
Updated: 2009-12-12 22:12:26Mathematically Predicting the Arrival of Human-Level Artificial IntelligenceThe Uncertain Future
Updated: 2009-12-12 18:51:30The Uncertain Future, a web application built by Michael Anissimov, Steve Rayhawk, Anna Salamon, Tom McCabe, and Rolf Nelson during the Singularity Institute Summer 2008 Research Program, with helpful discussions with a few others, is now in beta and ready for public announcement.
The Uncertain Future represents a new kind of futurism — futurism with heavy-tailed, [...]Inherent Uncertainty
Updated: 2009-12-09 18:01:16I’d like to point out Inherent Uncertainty, which I’ve added to the ML blog post scanner on the right. My understanding from Jake is that the intention is to have a multiauthor blog which is more specialized towards learning theory/game theory than this one. Nevertheless, several of the posts seem to be [...]Google Goggles - Photo recognition in real-time for augmented reality info
Updated: 2009-12-09 11:31:33Here’s something fresh from Google’s oven: the Google Goggles app for Android phones. Despite my let down when I realized they weren’t real Goggles, this is a mark of things getting interesting. Mobile AR apps are mutating and shifting into various forms and possibilities of the tech are certainly starting to form a big picture [...]Vowpal Wabbit version 4.0, and a NIPS heresy
Updated: 2009-12-07 18:42:35I’m releasing version 4.0(tarball) of Vowpal Wabbit. The biggest change (by far) in this release is experimental support for cluster parallelism, with notable help from Daniel Hsu. I also took advantage of the major version number to introduce some incompatible changes, including switching to murmurhash 2, and other alterations to cachefiles. You’ll [...]New SIAI Paper on Utility Theory by Peter de Blanc
Updated: 2009-12-04 06:50:27Peter de Blanc (Temple University), an SIAI Visiting Fellow, has recently published the final version of his most recent paper, titled “Convergence of Expected Utility for Universal Artificial Intelligence“. The paper, based on earlier work in the field of expected utility theory by Marcus Hutter (Australian National University) and SIAI Research Fellow Eliezer Yudkowsky, proves [...]