August 22, 2007
The Singularity Summit
The Singularity Summit
AI & the Future of Humanity
Sat-Sun, September 8th-9th
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
3301 Lyon St, SF, CA 94123
I attended last year (along with Ron Kaplan, then at PARC and now Powerset’s CTO) and really enjoyed the event.
This year, I am now an Advisor to the Singularity Institute for AI and I am happy to help promote the event. With keynote talks by Peter Norvig and Rod Brooks, and talks by lots of my friends and even a talk by me, it should be even more fun than last year!
The event is very affordably priced ($50!) and at a great location so everyone should be able to attend.
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Posted by barney on August 22, 2007 at 11:45 pm | No Comments
April 8, 2006
robot fighting video
I really enjoyed this video of robots fighting. I think the natural and flexible motion demonstrated by the winning robot platform should lead to advances in autonomous humanoid robots (like Asimo) and entertainment robots (like Aibo). The fighting robots themselves would make great toys. Way better than the race car sets I used to play with as a kid.
Posted by barney on April 8, 2006 at 1:40 pm | No Comments
May 15, 2005
Ethical Artificial Intelligence
Psychologist John E. LaMuth has received a United States Patent (No. 6,587,846) concerning ethical artificial intelligence entitled: Inductive Inference Affective Language Analyzer Simulating Artificial Intelligence .
Describing his invention, LaMuth writes:
“this new breakthrough represents the world’s first affective language analyzer encompassing ethical/motivational behaviors, providing a convincing simulation of ethical artificial intelligence. It enables a computer to reason and speak employing ethical parameters, an innovation based upon a primary complement of instinctual behavioral terms (rewards-leniency-appetite-aversion).
The framework is related to an emerging set of recent work on Emotions in AI. It also relates to other work coming out of psychology, including Ken Wilbur and the Enneagram.
Based on his analyis, he develops Ten Ethical Laws of Robotics . I’ve reprinted them here, as I find this really quite intriguing:
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