• 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

  • MetaOptimize Q+A

    Updated: 2010-07-03 14:35:00
    Inductio ex Machina Mark Reid Home Info Past Kith MetaOptimize Q+A This is just a quick post to point any readers who have not heard of it already to the newly deployed MetaOptimize Q+A a question and answer site for machine learning , NLP , data mining , AI and related topics that describes itself : as A community of data geeks interested in machine learning , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , text analysis , information retrieval , search , data mining , statistical modeling , and data visualization , as well as adjacent . topics I’ve had good experiences with related sites such as StackOverflow and particularly MathOverflow So far I’ve only had a chance to sign up and quickly look around MetaOptimize but from what I’ve seen the users seem sharp , the questions

  • MetaOptimize

    Updated: 2010-07-02 07:39:20
    Joseph Turian creates MetaOptimize for discussion of NLP and ML on big datasets. This includes a blog, but perhaps more importantly a question and answer section. I’m hopeful it will take off.

  • Singularity Summit: Another Early Discount Ending, New Speakers and a Banner

    Updated: 2010-07-01 01:16:31
    We’ve added John Tooby, the founder of evolutionary psychology, to our excellent roster for this upcoming August 14-15 conference at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, along with Ramez Naam, author of More Than Human. For those interested in technology and science, this is a star-studded roster. I’ve listed them before on this blog, but [...]

  • How about an AI teacher?

    Updated: 2010-06-28 16:26:16
    I think I am going to have to add a category for Artificial Intelligence.  I believe that in the fut

  • Singularity Summit 2010: Register Now!

    Updated: 2010-06-25 00:34:24
    There only a week to register for our conference before the price goes up again — right now it is $485. Students get $100 off. For every non-student you refer who signs up, you get an additional $100 off, with no limit. How do referrals work? Get your friend to sign [...]

  • 2010 ICML discussion site

    Updated: 2010-06-20 22:00:34
    A substantial difficulty with the 2009 and 2008 ICML discussion system was a communication vacuum, where authors were not informed of comments, and commenters were not informed of responses to their comments without explicit monitoring. Mark Reid has setup a new discussion system for 2010 with the goal of addressing this. Mark didn’t want to [...]

  • The Good News on Exploration and Learning

    Updated: 2010-06-13 21:49:54
    Consider the contextual bandit setting where, repeatedly: A context x is observed. An action a is taken given the context x. A reward r is observed, dependent on x and a. Where the goal of a learning agent is to find a policy for step 2 achieving a large expected reward. This setting is of obvious importance, [...]

  • Singularity Summit 2010: Last Day for Best Discount

    Updated: 2010-06-07 21:36:10
    The Singularity Summit 2010 features a variety of discounts for registration, including $100 off for students and $100 off for every non-student referral. However, the greatest discounts are for registering early — there is a $300 discount off the at-the-door cost of the conference if you register by midnight tonight, Monday the 7th. [...]

  • Latest version of LittleDog from CLMC and Boston Dynamics (video)

    Updated: 2010-06-03 21:15:51
    Our last look BigDog from at Boston Dynamics, most agreed that its movements were beginning to look eerily life-like. The latest version of LittleDog, shown in the video below, is nothing short of breathtaking. Six teams were provided with the LittleDog chassis and funding; this version contains AI software created by the Computational Learning and [...]

  • Announcing the Singularity Summit 2010

    Updated: 2010-06-02 01:14:23
    It’s that time of the year again — the Singularity Summit 2010 is scheduled for August 14-15 at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco. See you there! Here is our press release: Singularity Summit 2010 returns to San Francisco, explores intelligence augmentation Speakers include Futurist Ray Kurzweil, Magician-Skeptic James Randi Will it be one day [...]

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