Archive for August, 2007

Joining SIAI and participating in the Singularity Summit

Image by David Trowbridge

This spring I joined the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). After having followed Ray Kurzweil’s, Eliezer Yudkowsky’s, and Ben Goertzel’s work for some time, it is my opinion that the institute that they are directing, together with Tyler Emerson, Bruce Klein, and others, is one of the most important today, and [...]

The evolution of software vs. hardware solutions

At the AGI mailing list there are several interesting threads, and recently a request by Eliezer Yudkowsky caught my eye, asking for the source of a quote, which I forwarded to Geordie Rose of D-Wave, who indeed replied quickly and in depth.
The request was to support that
“a 1974 era computer running 2007 algorithms would beat [...]

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