Archive for August, 2007

Joining SIAI and participating in the Singularity Summit

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

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 evolution of software vs. hardware solutions

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

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 ...