Announcing a new Meetup for Bay Area Artificial Intelligence Meetup Group!

What: This And That

When: Sunday, June 27, 2010 12:00 PM

Where:
TechShop
120 Independence Dr.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
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This is our first attempt in over two years to gather several shorter presentations into one MeetUp. So far we have one speaker:

Louie Helm: Self-Improving AI & AI Risks

We note that: (1) intelligence (and artifical intelligence by extension) can be understood as "efficient cross-domain optimization"; (2) powerful cross-domain optimizers for X will often create still more powerful optimizers for X without human intervention, in a cycle of self-improvement; and (3) very powerful optimizing systems would cause human extinction unless their goals are specifically designed to be optimally fulfilled by a world that includes humans. We conclude that although there are large gaps in our models, and although self-improving AIs are probably decades or more in the future, such scenarios deserve serious near-term research.

Louie Helm is a Visiting Fellow at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence and a published researcher in mathematics and quantum computing. He is founder of the Seventeen or Bust distributed computing project and an internet entrepreneur who previously held positions in the supercomputing and defense industries. He holds an M.S. in Software Engineering from the University of Texas.
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Beyond Louie's presentation (estimated to take 30 minutes) I have a few short videos to show.
If no other presenter volunteers (please email me ASAP if you want to give a presentation) we'll just use the remaining time for the usual discussion about any and all AI related topics.

Learn more here:
http://www.ai-meetup.org/calendar/13872535/