I know Shane Legg from his work with AIXI, the mathematical model of infinite general intelligence. That's some heavy hitters.
Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
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Re: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
#42Dang. $400million sounds like a lot for landing page. Only kidding. Best of luck to those guys. They sound very talented.
Extracting millions out of acquirees should be done with the least possible investment. Seriously, if you can rook 'em in some way that can't blow back, go for it.
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Re: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
#43The missing piece for Google to become Skynet?
Robotics companies and now AI companies, Google seems to have much higher ambitions than the internet. May be they watching too many sci-fi movies in their 20% time. :)
When you have the capability to achieve dreams as immense as Google can, it's best to reach for the most powerful dreams possible.
Re: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
#44Here's a talk the founder gave in 2010 for Singularity U about combining neuroscience and machine learning. http://vimeo.com/17513841
It seems that Google has now gone full Singularist. They jumped the shark when they hired Kurzweil.
I don't really understand the objective of those like Kurzweil. What do they see as the benefit of the singularity? Wouldn't a drastically more advanced intelligence just dwarf and dissolve any lesser intelligence that tried to meld with it? It would be complete ego death.
Re: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
#45The DeepMind website [1] links to cofounder Demis Hassabis' biography on Wikipedia [2]. Read it. This guy is a world-class hacker!
Re: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems that Google has now gone full Singularist. They jumped the shark when they hired Kurzweil.
I don't really understand the objective of those like Kurzweil. What do they see as the benefit of the singularity? Wouldn't a drastically more advanced intelligence just dwarf and dissolve any lesser intelligence that tried to meld with it? It would be complete ego death.
To many, love.
Re: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems that Google has now gone full Singularist. They jumped the shark when they hired Kurzweil.
I don't really understand the objective of those like Kurzweil. What do they see as the benefit of the singularity? Wouldn't a drastically more advanced intelligence just dwarf and dissolve any lesser intelligence that tried to meld with it? It would be complete ego death.
At best, a copy of you living in VR gets to live until the sun explodes. Which at least is better defined than "heaven".
Re: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
#48I remember that they had an impressive demo at the NIPS Deep Learning Workshop in December (probably a highlight for me and a few people I talked to afterwards) of a reinforcement learning agent playing Atari 2600 Games where the input consisted of an image that was fed through a Convolutional Neural Network. There is a paper on Arxiv that describes the approach ("Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning"[0]) b…
I actually read this paper a couple weeks ago as part of a deep learning reading group that I co-run. While several of these authors are household names in the RL community, this paper was not actually that impressive to me. The only real "deep" learning here is that they used a GPU library and stochastic gradient descent to perform Q-learning updates on a network with 3 large hidden layers. It was an interesting app…
> surpasses a human expert on three of them
I hazard it's not very impressed with your Space Invader score, either.
Re: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
#49Ohhh, did Google buy them? Or did the AI figure that the best place to launch world domination from was inside Google so it forged a letter from Larry and Sergey offering to acquire the company? :-)
Re: Google to Buy Artificial Intelligence Startup DeepMind for $400M
#50Is Google drunk? Thats $4B in basically two weeks on unproven companies.
They have an assload of cash on hand and the singularity is coming at us like a freight train. I'd think they were drunk if they weren't snatching up everything relevant in sight.