Amazing Progress in Artificial Intelligence – Ben Goertzel


Why are nearly all our holidays focused on celebrating the past, or the cyclical processes of nature? Why not celebrate the amazing future we are collectively creating? That’s the concept behind a new global holiday, Future Day (celebrated early March), conceived by AI researcher Dr. Ben Goertzel, and shepherded by Adam Ford. The future is…
Firstly, values are important because they are the fundamental principles that guide decisions and actions in humans. They shape our understanding of right and wrong, and they influence how we interact with the world around us. In the context of AI, values are particularly important because they determine how AI systems will behave, what goals…
Honey bees – with a tiny brain the size of a sesame seed – can solve amazingly difficult problems (esp navigational challenges). Here is some research that suggests when young bees are stressed and sent out to labor too early – bee colonies collapse. – See MQU Article ‘Why stressed young bees’ early start to…
Implications for AI Safety and Indirect Normativity The challenge of understanding value space has moved from a philosophical curiosity to an urgent technical problem. As we approach the development of advanced artificial intelligence, the structure of value and our ability to specify it has become perhaps the most critical challenge facing humanity. This challenge assumes…
Synopsis: The new cognitive capabilities in our machines were the result of a shift in the way wethink about problem solving. The shift is the most significant change in AI, ever, if not inscience as a whole. Machine Learning based systems are now successfully attackingboth simple and complex problems using these novel Methods. We are…
Two of the world’s leading brain researchers will come together to discuss some of the latest international efforts to understand the brain. They will discuss two massive initiatives – the US based Allen Institute for Brain Science and European Human Brain Project. By combining neuroscience with the power of computing both projects are harnessing the…