The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) has launched a blog covering research and outreach updates, videos, articles, papers, events, goals, and relevant science and technology news. SIAI is a not-for-profit research institute in Palo Alto, California, with three major goals: furthering the nascent science of safe, beneficial advanced artificial intelligence (self-improving systems) through research [...]
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Chaordic knowledge production: A systems-based response to critical education
1/24/2007
Ah, yes… now for a moment of shameless displays of pride and self-promotion ! Desk copies of my “Chaordic knowledge production: A systems-based response to critical education” article, published in Theory of Science vol. XV/XXVIII/2006, no. 3, pp. 149-162, arrived last week. Drop me a line if you’d like a PDF of the scanned article! [...]
What happened to Thinking Machines?
11/25/2006
Technology Review has an interview with Danny Hills, cofounder of Thinking Machines. In the 1980′s the company sought to develop the world’s first real artificial intelligence. They failed. Why? We look to our own minds and watch our patterns of conscious thought, reasoning, planning, and making analogies, and we think, “That’s thinking.” Actually, it’s just [...]
Cyber society
5/20/2006
From the IST program: If computers could create a society, what kind of world would they make? Thanks to the work of an ambitious project that adds a whole new meaning to the phrase, ‘computer society’, in which millions of software agents will potentially evolve their own culture, we could be about to find out. [...]
Ottawa Business Journal: Googlemania in 2006
2/6/2006
The Ottawa Business Journal reports that Google, is poised to replace email as the most-used digital thanks to higher-speed connections and the ever-growing mountain of digital data. The company predicts the scope of search, while still based on text-based key words, will expand to include digital data held on devices such as PCs, mobile phones, [...]
FCW: Government 2.0
5/21/2005
From FCW.com: Eggers: Government 2.0 “Students can now get personally tailored education without attending special schools or classes. It’s even possible to eliminate much of the guesswork involved in deciding which learning approach works best for each student. Using artificial intelligence, the computer can adapt to the pace, complexity and direction of the learning experience [...]
Cyc to be unleashed onto the Internet
4/22/2005
Certain elements of the blogosphere are abuzz with news that Austin, TX’s Cycorp is about to release an AI, “Cyc,” on the Internet. With a mission to learn and build its knowledge, it will accelerate its new knowledge acquisition by interacting with netizens and siphoning multimedia information on the Web. In a New Scientist article [...]
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