Interstellar AI Probes

Here is my presentation at 100 Year Starship Symposium 2013:
Artificial Intelligence and Brain Simulation Probes for Interstellar Expeditions.

Synopsis:

Target selection

A brief introduction to Artificial General Intelligence

High-level design ideas for an autonomous AGI probe

Projections for human-level AGI and infinity point

Subsystem details

Mission Profile

From an AI perspective, the most interesting part is the new prediction for infinity point, which sets the date at 2035 in the worst case. Also, there is new material for application of the AGI agent idea to a concrete scientific exploration task.

Interstellar AI Probes

Eray Özkural

Eray Özkural has obtained his PhD in computer engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara. He has a deep and long-running interest in human-level AI. His name appears in the acknowledgements of Marvin Minsky's The Emotion Machine. He has collaborated briefly with the founder of algorithmic information theory Ray Solomonoff, and in response to a challenge he posed, invented Heuristic Algorithmic Memory, which is a long-term memory design for general-purpose machine learning. Some other researchers have been inspired by HAM and call the approach "Bayesian Program Learning". He has designed a next-generation general-purpose machine learning architecture. He is the recipient of 2015 Kurzweil Best AGI Idea Award for his theoretical contributions to universal induction. He has previously invented an FPGA virtualization scheme for Global Supercomputing, Inc. which was internationally patented. He has also proposed a cryptocurrency called Cypher, and an energy based currency which can drive green energy proliferation. You may find his blog at https://log.examachine.net and some of his free software projects at https://github.com/examachine/.

Eray Özkural

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