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, [...]
The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, is taking a different approach to 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.
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 [...]
Artificial Intelligence, it is something which has always fascinated me. Something un-natural and unOn 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. [...]The 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 [...]