Location

Los Altos, CAUSA
(Hometown: Los Altos)

Member of this
Meetup Group since

April 5, 2007

Organizer of this Meetup Group since

August 17, 2007

Introduction

I am an AI researcher, futurist, cryonicist, and nanoTech follower. I have a blog at http://monicasmin...

What is your profession?

CEO of Syntience Inc., an AI research startup company in Silicon Valley. We are using Artificial Intuition to attack the problem of document understanding, i.e. how to find the true semantic meaning of text.

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  • Monica
    Monica
    Jul 25
    I RSVPed Yes for Bob Kirby: Primitives for Knowledge Representation
    Sunday 12:00 PM at TechShop
    4.50 4.507 (7 ratings)
    2 weeks ago | Details
  • Theo
    Theo liked Monica's idea
    Monica
    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 to interact..."
    8 members like this idea
    3 weeks ago | View Idea | All Ideas
  • Lex Ricketts
    Lex Ricketts liked Monica's idea
    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 to interact..."
    8 members like this idea
    4 weeks ago | View Idea | All Ideas
  • Randall Reetz
    Randall Reetz liked Monica's idea
    Monica
    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 discussion...."
    18 members like this idea
    4 weeks ago | View Idea | All Ideas
  • Monica
    Monica
    Jun 27
    I RSVPed Yes for This And That (UPDATED - now three speakers and a short video)
    Sunday 12:00 PM at TechShop
    25 attended · 4.50 4.506 (6 ratings)
    Jun 22 | Details
  • Monica
    Monica
    So far we have one 20-30 min talk for next Sunday. Any others?
    Jun 21
  • Monica
    Monica
    If at least 3 people offer to give 20 minute presentations then we'll have 3-5 of those for the June 27 MeetUp. Please post title and abstract in the Ideas section on this site so that people have a chance to weigh in on whether they think ... Read more the topic is appropriate for such a talk.

    If we don't get at least three offers then I reserve the right to do something else on the 27th.

    Other Upcoming events are Terrence Deacon and a second talk by Bob Kirby. These two will complete a tetrateuch of sorts on a theme loosely centered around Peirce and his successors (Bob's first talk, Mark's talk, Terrence Deacon, and Bob's second talk).
    Jun 13
  • Monica
    Monica
    Jun 13
    I RSVPed Yes for Mark Carranza: Peirce for Programmers
    Sunday 12:00 PM at TechShop
    26 attended · 4.50 4.507 (7 ratings)
    Jun 8 | Details
  • Monica
    Monica
    The video of Bob Blum's talk titled "Consciousness - What, Who, When, and Why" is now available at http://videos.syntience.com , on vimeo.com, and in the bottom right corner of this page (for a few days). Sound quality is a little poor at ... Read morefirst but it sorts itself out after a couple minutes.
    Jun 3
  • Vera Klimkovsky
    Vera Klimkovsky liked Monica's idea
    Monica
    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 discussion...."
    18 members like this idea
    Jun 1 | View Idea | All Ideas

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