Artificial Intelligence

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Updated: 2012-01-20 15:16:07

This is the last week to contribute to the 2011 Singularity Institute Winter Fundraiser. Please contribute, so we can we can hire more full-time researchers to make progress formalizing and solving open problems in the mathematics, decision theory, and cognitive science of AI risk research, bringing mankind closer to a beneficial Singularity. Thank you for your [...]

Rebuttal of the Chinese Room Argument (10/14/2007)

Updated: 2012-01-16 02:23:26

The Library of Alexandria Rebuttal of the Chinese Room Argument Jim Carnicelli's AI Blog Alexandria Home Up One Level ò Sunday , 10 14 2007 Rebuttal of the Chinese Room Argument Back to blog home Listen to an audio version Notify me of new entries Subscribe to a full RSS feed of this blog While discussing the subject of Artificial Intelligence in another forum , someone brought up the old Chinese Room argument against the possibility of AI . My wife suggested I post my response to the point , as it seems a good rebuttal of the argument . itself If you're unfamiliar with the CR argument , there's a great entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy It summarizes as : follows The argument centers on a thought experiment in which someone who knows only English sits alone in a room

Topics in Machine Vision (9/21/2005)

Updated: 2012-01-16 02:23:09

The Library of Alexandria Topics in Machine Vision Jim Carnicelli's AI Blog Alexandria Home Up One Level ò Wednesday , 9 21 2005 Topics in Machine Vision Back to blog home Listen to an audio version Notify me of new entries Subscribe to a full RSS feed of this blog Once again , I've forgotten to announce a sub-site I created recently that I call Topics in Machine Vision click here back on August 28th . Unlike my earlier Introduction to Machine Vision it does not set out to give a broad overview of the subject matter . Instead , it's geared toward the researcher with at least some familiarity with the subject . Also , whereas I intended the introduction to stand complete on its own , Topics is more organic , meaning that I'll continue to add content to it as time passes . Knowing that this

Machine vision: Hierarchy of regions (6/9/2005)

Updated: 2012-01-16 02:22:51

: The Library of Alexandria Machine vision : Hierarchy of regions Jim Carnicelli's AI Blog Alexandria Home Up One Level ò Thursday , 6 9 2005 Machine vision : Hierarchy of regions Back to blog home Listen to an audio version Notify me of new entries Subscribe to a full RSS feed of this blog Following is another in my series of ad hoc journal entries I've been keeping of my thoughts on machine vision . One thing that most of us in MV don't want to admit is that we arbitrarily set thresholds for distinguishing where one thing ends and another begins . I don't think we work that way , per se . I'd like to see edge- or color-blob-finding techniques having varying thresholds . One use would be in finding large regions with high thresholds , then using ever narrower thresholds to find the

Machine vision: cost-effective action (6/9/2005)

Updated: 2012-01-16 02:22:51

: The Library of Alexandria Machine vision : cost-effective action Jim Carnicelli's AI Blog Alexandria Home Up One Level ò Thursday , 6 9 2005 Machine vision : cost-effective action Back to blog home Listen to an audio version Notify me of new entries Subscribe to a full RSS feed of this blog Following is another in my series of ad hoc journal entries I've been keeping of my thoughts on machine vision . One thing that seems to dog many MV techniques is how slow or otherwise resource-hungry they are . I'm realizing that one thing that seems a must is a set of basic vision tools that allow for trading time for effectiveness . For example , given a whole image , the agent should be able to focus on a small portion like your own fovea does instead of trying to analyze the entire image . Also ,

Neural network demo (11/2/2004)

Updated: 2012-01-16 02:22:36

I learned of artificial neural networks sometime around 1991. The concept has intrigued me ever since, but it was not until early last week that I finally got around to making my own. I decided to write an introduction to neural nets from my novice perspective and make the sample program I wrote, along with source code, available for other people to experiment with. Click here to check it out.

Chris Natural Search Blog

Updated: 2012-01-16 02:21:20

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mobile search optimization Natural Search Blog

Updated: 2012-01-16 02:20:58

Natural Search Blog categories archive about contact Pure Oxygen Mobile : New Marketing Venture Worth Watching My former coworker and colleague , Brian Klais who has also been a contributor to Natural Search Blog , has launched a new venture to assist companies with marketing to wireless device users and mobile optimization : Pure Oxygen Mobile Almost everyone is aware that mobile usage has been on the upswing for the past few years , and more and more search activities are being conducted via smartphones Since consumers are going to handheld devices to find products and services , it behooves companies to target the mobile market and focus on the unique opportunities to be found . there Enter Pure Oxygen , a real pioneer in the field of mobile ad optimization . The firm provides consumer

Paper: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

Updated: 2012-01-13 06:48:17

There is a new paper by Nick Bostrom and Eliezer Yudkowsky on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence. It will appear in the Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence: The possibility of creating thinking machines raises a host of ethical issues. These questions relate both to ensuring that such machines do not harm humans and other morally relevant beings, [...]

Singularity Institute Covered in Bloomberg Businessweek

Updated: 2012-01-11 00:18:57

The Singularity Institute and existential risk mitigation were recently covered in a special feature in Bloomberg Businessweek, and the article was syndicated on various websites, including SFGate.com. Bloomberg Businessweek has a circulation of approximately one million. A scan of the feature is available here.

2011 Singularity Institute Winter Fundraiser

Updated: 2011-12-27 20:57:07

Help us raise $100,000 that will go towards funding a website redesign, new research papers, and staging a bigger and better Singularity Summit 2012 in San Francisco. This fundraiser ends January 20th, so please contribute now to help us achieve our goal! Donate now! This is your last chance to make a tax-deductible [...]

Episode 79 – The 2011 Campies

Updated: 2011-12-21 15:54:24

Roll out the red carpet, because it’s time once again for the Campies, Digital Campus’s beloved year-end review of what has passed and what is to come. Tom, Amanda, Mills, and Dan reveal their picks for the best and worst of the year, and shine their crystal balls to predict with vague and partially satisfying [...]