Michael Anissimov
<p>Jan 18, 2010 10:25 PM
 
MIT  5 year study of new fnds of AI
Stanley (Stanford robocar)
ping pong cybog
he shows movie of   cars in Urban Chalenge.
UAV Predator
IBM Blue Brain
Netflix Movie Prize
MARS Rover  went for 3 years !!! on hostile planet, unaided!
HOD Lipson Cornell  robots  spiders  (see HODs talk)
Eueqa   read the Download article in Wired abt it.
ADAM the roboscientist.  sequel is EVE.
 
TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 in Science for 2009!
 
2009  Air Force Automated Surveillance (from satellite data)  100x faster than human.
Wolfram Alpha  he loves it...  lots of data and smarts bilt in.
Univ of Chicago  breast CA  estim probab of mets from appearance automatic.
UCSC  music composer  Prof Cope  "Emily Howell"
NorthWestern  News at Seven  animated characters read the sports news
Marcus Hutter  AIXI  reinforcement learning  plays Pac-Man
 
free Dragon Dictation for iPhone
improved  voice reco/face reco
 
DARPA:  text to formal representation
 
AI Winter ended in early 90s
John Markoff  Coming Superbrain  and  Asilomar Conf on AI
 
RAY SOLOMOFF:  1926 to 2009.
levels of AI
B  genl theory of problem solving
C  self-improvement
D  Text  gets converted to representation  (as in humans)
E  genl  prob solving ability  with the agility of humans.
 
Ray Sol.  quote:  image  the future shock u wud get from  seeing all of 20th cent progress
roll out in 1 year ... planes, jets, rockets, lasers, computers,  QM,  H bombs  cell phones.
 
AI advantag3es -  faster, smarter, self-reproducing, many polaces at once,
not just one focus of attn;  better learning procedures  (no Yudkowsky biases)
photogr memory,  extesnible hardware... access to own source code.
 
S. African  robotic cannon went out of control and killed 9 people.
out anthropomorphic tendency .. Mr Potato Head
David Hume quote...  (utility fxn is completely separ from rationality)
It is <b>not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger</b>. (A Treatise Upon Human Nature)
<a href="http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/quotes/famous/david_hume/it_is_not_contrary_to_reason_4296">David Hume quote</a>
<b>Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions</b>, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them (A Treatise Upon Human Nature)
 
Steve Omohundro  Basic AI Drives
1)  self-improve  2) rational  3) preserve utility function 4) prevent counterfeit utility fxn
5)  prot4ect SELF  6)  incr resources
Steve O calls for Utility Engineering
 
Eliezer Yudkowsky:  Creating Friendly AI  paper of 2000.
 
 
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