UMass Amherst computer scientist leads the way to the next revolution in artificial intelligence. It’s striking how somebody who has no understanding of set theory or theory of computation can claim such things. 2^aleph_0, eh? What flamboyance. Beware this University
Godseed: benevolent or malevolent?
Introduction One of the most interesting questions we’ve ever pondered on the ai-philosophy mailing list was how you would build an “angelic” autonomous AI. Would it be possible to make some kind of angel’s mind that, by design, achieves only
Teramachine is operational
Teramachine is the second milestone of the examachine research program. It features teraflop-scale incremental machine learning, therefore it embodies an integrated long-term memory which works in black-box fashion from the user’s point of view. I can really feel this is
Teramachine inverting functions
Teramachine marches on towards primary-school student level. Function inversion (in the mathematical sense) with one example (assuming one-shot learning) is implemented like this in the current code, to give you a flavor of how neat O’Caml code can look: let
Narrow AI is not AI (And AGI is just computer science!)
I have maintained for ages that terminological and polemical discussions are fruitless and therefore fit for fools. However, every now and then we are being forced into such trivial controversy. I will reminisce an old foe from the glorious days
Pei Wang on the Path to Artificial General Intelligence
Pei Wang on the Path to Artificial General Intelligence. Ben Goertzel interviews Pei Wang. The interview does contain some interesting questions. It sounds as if Ben believes in a kind of “embodied inteligence”. However, it also seems to me that
Autonomous AI: reptile, human or better?
Presently, most researchers assume that a general-purpose human-level or beyond AI system must be autonomous. This is mostly due to AIMA’s agent designs and Hutter’s version of intelligence definitions that emphasize agent design. That is to say, an agent thinks
The failure of the “Friendly AGI” notion and a case for free AGI.
It sounds like most folks don’t have a clue about how an AGI would work. Let us remember where the generality of an AGI comes from. An AGI has universal intelligence, because it has in its possession a universal computer,