Elevating the Human Condition
While in Beijing, I conducted video interviews with some of the presenters at AGI-13, the Sixth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence. Central themes: * Probability theory as a key tool in building advanced, rational AGI systems * Mind-body integration as...
Video and abstract of Roman’s presentation at Oxford University. Analysis of historical examples of wireheading in man and machine and evaluate a number of approaches proposed for dealing with reward-function corruption. While simplistic optimizers driven to maximize a proxy measure for a particular goal will always be a subject to corruption, sufficiently rational self-improving machines are believed by many to be safe from wireheading problems.
Futurist pundit George Dvorsky recently posted an article on io9, labeled as “DEBUNKERY” and aimed at the topic of mind uploading. … I will briefly run through Dvorsky’s eight objections, and … explain why, from my own perspective, none of them is compelling …
VIdeo of Max More and Natasha Vita-More on The Transhumanist Reader.
Joscha Bach, Ph.D. is an AI researcher who worked and published about cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems.
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