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If you're talking about human-level intelligence, I think you're on to something. Old-fashioned AI was probably closer to the right track than we are now. > did attempts to general…

> There’s a funny blog post somewhere about the idea of a computer writing superhuman-level funny jokes; I wish I remembered where! Maybe this one? http://idlewords.com/talks/super…

Not the GP, but some examples are: (1) how do you get a computer to have a human-like train of thought? (2) how do you get a computer to acquire new concepts (e.g. "debt", "global …

Totally agree with you. You might be interested in basicai.org. We're trying to address those big fundamental problems you reference.

None of the problems you mention is actually solved though. They're all things that work sort of, some of the time, with caveats about how you define "work." They work well enough …

Yes and no. For safety of narrow AI systems, yeah, there's a lot of scope for research, and that's what your first link gets at. But for AGI (which is what Tegmark talks about), th…

Yes, this is the problem with AI risk---there's a community pushing hard to gather resources to the cause, but little or no scientific work to be done. This is a rather pathologica…

An interesting read, but the conclusion that "the singularity is nowhere near" was reached by assuming that only neural modeling could get us there, and that assumption wasn't defe…

I second this recommendation! Here's some more reading for anyone interested in Hofstadter: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a3278/why-watson-and... http://www.basicai.org/b…

Great quote from Hinton. The biggest deficiency in AI is that we still don't have artificial systems which simulate human thought with any fidelity. Sooner or later that's bound to…

The presentation briefly mentioned simulating the brain, but I think what's more likely to succeed is mimicking the mind at a high level of abstraction (i.e. a level we can study w…

Eventually I think AI safety will be solved through some mixture of design choices, supervision/monitoring, and human-administered "incentives" for good behavior (not unlike the re…

Exactly. The closest thing to a mathematical definition of intelligence is probably Marcus Hutter's AIXI model ( http://www.hutter1.net/ai/uaibook.htm ). But it's not widely accept…

My impression is that time banks are local. Is there some sort of central website you can use for time banking? Besides that, Goodwillbank is set up for exchanging time in ratios o…

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