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In our MIT AI Venture Studio class this week, we had Alex Wissner-Gross, a computer scientist with a lot of experience in innovation who can claim MIT as his alma mate...

The idea of artificial general intelligence as we know it today starts with a dot-com blowout on Broadway.  Twenty years ago—before Shane Legg clicked with neuroscience postgrad Demis Hassabis over a shared fascination with intelligence; before the pair hooked up with Hassabis’s childhood friend Mustafa Suleyman, a progressive activist, to spin that fascination into a…

Is compression equivalent to general intelligence? DeepMind digs up more potential clues.

Since 2006, Slashdot has been covering a contest CmdrTaco once summarized as "Compress Wikipedia and Win." It rewards progress on compressing a 1-billion-character excerpt of Wikipedia — approximately the amount that a human can read in a lifetime. And today a new record was announced. Th...

Here is a summary of an overview of the field of Artificial General Intelligence. Generative AI (Neural Networks) likely need enhancements from the other

The outgoing year has demonstrated, on the one hand, continued growth in the power and capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) relying

IN THE Terminator films, a superintelligent AI called Skynet tries to wipe out humanity using nukes and an army of killer robots.And while a blood-thi

In a recent research paper, Google and Oxford scientists have highlighted that not only AI is likely to wipe out humans but it is also almost inevitable once machines acquire advanced intelligence.

1990: gradient descent learns subgoals. 1991: multiple time scales and levels of abstraction. 1997: world models learn predictable abstract representations...

LESSWRONG 96 Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual. Jeff Hawkins gets full credit for getting me first interested in the idea that neuroscience might lead to artificial general intelligence—an idea which gradually turned into an all-consuming hobby, and more recently a new job. Im not alone in finding him inspiring. Andrew Ng claimed here that Hawkins helped convince him, as a young professor, that a simple scaled-up learning algorithm could re...