Author: Foresight Editor

Several of the talks at the Summit might be lumped together under the heading “AI — when and how?” The two main pathways were the synthetic approach, talked about by people like Juergen Schmidhuber, Ben Goertzel and Itamar Arel, and brain emulation, talked about by such people as Anders Sandberg, David Chalmers, and Ray Kurzweil.… Continue reading More Thoughts on the Singularity Summit

Thoughts on the Singularity Summit Congratulations to the people of the SIAI for putting on an interesting, stimulating, really well-run conference. Note for those who weren’t able to be there, that the talks were recorded and will be available on SIAI’s website singinst.org. The following comments are not an attempt to explain the talks but… Continue reading Thoughts on the Singularity Summit

The Singularity Summit is going on in NYC this weekend.  This will be an open thread for comments or questions about the talks (or any related subject.)

There are those who worry about AIs or robots taking over the world.  Isaac Asimov famously worried about people worrying about it — what he called the Frankenstein Complex — and invented the Three Laws of Robotics to show, at a sort of literary level of understanding, that we could build machines that were safe… Continue reading Building Safe AI

With the Singularity Summit fast approaching, it’s worth spend a little time pondering the perennial question of nanotechnology vs AI: which will happen first, will they be independent, symbiotic, or synergetic, and so forth? I say perennial because this is a question that has been discussed at Foresight meetings ever since the first Conference 20… Continue reading Nanotech and AI