Bay Area Artificial Intelligence Meetup Group

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Monica: Genetic Algorithms
Genetic Algorithms are a Model Free Method and therefore they are a candidate for use as (or as a component of) bottom-up (subsymbolic) approaches to AI.

I'll give a 40 min to 1 hr presentation on the topic, with slides, followed by ... Read morediscussion. I did this over two years ago and considering the importance of the topic and the rate of turnover in the group it's time to do it again. I'll update the slides. This will happen when I have no other speaker lined up OR when this idea entry reaches a critical number of votes.

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Monica
on Apr 4, 2010
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Machine Learning Mathematics Study Group
Review algorithms, statistics, SVD, SVM, etc. Maybe Octave or SciPy.

And PLEASE sometimes slightly further south in Santa Clara County for those of us using Outreach. They do go to Palo Alto.
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mbennett
on Sep 9, 2009
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Demo Day
Let's have a demo day: Instead of giving someone the floor for an entire meetup; those who are working on AI projects could bring in a laptop and run a 15-20 minute demo. Nothing needs to be pretty or shiny.
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Andrew Rondeau
on Jan 24, 2010
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Willow Garage Machine Vision Project
From PhD students to hackers to corp engineers, there's no shared PC like platform for AI. Thus like a broken record, we keep starting over an over at the same place. Certainly PHD students spend 2-3 yrs building a robot to study AI. ... Read moreWilliow Garage has project to share a Python based platform for robotics, would be cool to learn more about the project and it AI intent.
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Clive
on Jan 10, 2010
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Survey of available software to explore to build solution(s)
I had a bit of prior experience about AI. Now I think it may provide a means to my problem--helping to diagnose and to suggest fixes for solar power plants.
I've defined some fault & conditional probability matrices. I need to ... Read more know if there are software that I can try to build inference engine incorporating domain knowledge, and a warehouse of measurement data. The preferred environment is L.A.M.P(HP), Java.
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Steve Yang
on Nov 21, 2009
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HackerDojo Machine Learning Class
Class starts 9/23 7pm at HackerDojo(sign up on front page). We will meet once a week and follow the Stanford CS229 open source materials.Taught by Mike Bowles/Tricia Hoffman. Fee, $50/members, $250 nonmembers. All money goes to instructors ... Read more
Syllabus:
Supervised learning:LMS.Logistic regression. Perceptron. Generative learning algorithms. Gaussian discriminant analysis. Naive Bayes.Support vector machines.Model selection and feature selection. Ensemble methods: Bagging, boosting, ECOC.Evaluating and debugging learning algorithms.
Learning theory:Bias/variance tradeoff. Union and Chernoff/Hoeffding bounds.VC dimension. Worst case (online) learning.Practical advice on how to use learning algorithms.
Unsupervised learning:Clustering. K-means.EM. Mixture of Gaussians.Factor analysis.PCA. MDS. pPCA,ICA.
Reinforcement learning and control:MDPs. Bellman equations.Value iteration and policy iteration.Linear quadratic regulation (LQR). LQG.Q-learning. Value function approximation.Policy search. Reinforce. POMDPs.
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doug chang
on Aug 24, 2010
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AI in Virtual Worlds
Ben Goertzel and associates did some work here that should be mentioned. There are many robot and AIML driven critters and other tools and intelligent agents that various people attempt to make work in Second Life and OpenSim. While I am ... Read more not a researcher in this area I would be happy to dig into state of the art and resources available to put together a presentation. I will need about a month scheduling notice.
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Samantha Atkins
on Apr 4, 2010
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AI in harvesting knowledge from the web
Let me toss in the topic of "harvesting knowledge from web pages". I'd be happy to collaborate on such a presentation -- don't have the bandwidth (for the next few
months) to carry the entire load, but I've got a ... Read morefew ideas to contribute.
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Jack Park
on Apr 4, 2010
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Monica and ?? :Two Strikes against Embodiment
The Embodiment Argument (the idea that in order to become intelligent it is an absolute requirement that you have a body you can move around in order to explore the world) and its sibling The Enactment Argument (that you ALSO must be able ... Read moreto interact with the world) are very popular and have many adherents in our group. Scott Jackish gave a presentation about this some time ago.

Personally I happen to believe these arguments are overrated and I'd like to attempt to cast some doubt on them. This is not easy since these arguments are so compelling that when you first hear them you *want* to believe them because of anthropocentric bias. I can give a talk on the topic but there's a small chance I can get an external speaker to help me out or at least provide another viewpoint. If I can engage this external speaker, then it'll be "Two" strikes against. Otherwise, it'll just be me. A *very* lively discussion is expected to ensue.
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Monica
on Apr 4, 2010
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Limits of Intellegince
Unmoderated group discussion about the real absolute limits (a la Turring and Godel) on intelligence and intelligent systems. Are these limits different than the limists that have already been identified for computing? What are the ... Read moreimplications for the future of AI and evolution itself?
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Posted by:
Randall Reetz
on Sep 28, 2009