artificial general intelligence & the technological singularity
After a successful AGI-08 (videos online), AGI-09 is now planned for Arlington VA, Mar 6-9, 2009. It’s really gratifying to know that after Ben Goertzel and I brainstormed the concept of an AGI event back in 2006 on my couch in Bethesda, MD, we’re starting to see growing momentum toward a yearly conference w/ highly [...]
With great support from the Accelerating Future People Database, we’re in the process of uploading AGI-08 talks. Thus far, Ben Goertzel’s introductory talk - AI and AGI: Past, Present and Future - has been uploaded, along with a few other.
“Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would [...]
A question very simply crafted poll I’m asking a few friends to gain a better perspective on the time-frame for when we may see greater-than-human level AI. Results posted below… if you wish to participate, email me (bruce-at-novamente.net) an answer for the following:
[ ] 2010-20
[ ] 2020-30
[ [...]
The proceedings (edited by Ben Grtzel and Pei Wang) from our 2006 AGI Workshop (sponsored by Novamente) has been published. You can purchase the book or check for the individual papers at the website. Here’s an excerpt from the introduction:
This book contains materials that come out of the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute (AGIRI) Workshop, [...]
While reading SIAI’s recent Why We Exist post, I came across a link to Michael Anissimov’s research where he finds a 1935 novel passage which makes possible first reference to “AI/robotic recursive self-improvement in fiction” - quoted by Technovelgy:
“You have forgotten your history, and you have forgotten the history of the Machine, humans…”
“On the planet [...]
Article by David R. Butcher, via ThomasNet, refers to Ben’s recent essay:
Indeed, the creation of a superhumanly intelligent artificial intelligence (AI) system could be possible within 10 years, with an “AI Manhattan Project,†Dr. Ben Goertzel, CEO and Chief Scientist of AI firm Novamente LLC and bioinformatics firm Biomind LLC, recently wrote.
It’s nice to see [...]
The Singularity Institute has recently debuted a new short video about the Institute’s mission. Also, visionary entrepreneur, Peter Thiel has sent a request to Institute members to step up their support of the $400,000 Matching Challenge before May 21st:
Dear Friends,
One of the largest challenges facing us this century will be understanding human intelligence and then [...]
Geoerge Dvorsky created an excellent list of Must-know terms for the 21st Century intellectual: Redux. Friend and colleague, Ben Goertzel made the list twice, or rather terms associated with our work on Novamente and AGIRI made the cut:
Artificial General Intelligence: This ain’t your daddy’s AI. Rather, AGI describes the kind of intelligence that you and [...]
Tomorrow, Susan and I board a train from San Francisco to Melbourne, FL (taking five days) to reach Terasem’s 2006 Melbourne Colloquium.
At Terasem Movement’s headquarters, Susan will represent (in a mock trial) the rights of a transbeman person (BINA48). A transbeman is a being who claims to have the rights and obligations associated with being [...]