May 2015 Newsletter May 1, 2015 | Jesse Galef | Newsletters Research updates Two new papers on reflective oracles and agents. New articles on AI Impacts (last 2 months): Preliminary prices for human-level hardware, Trends in the cost of computing, Glial signaling, Scale of the human brain, Neuron firing rates in humans, Metabolic estimates of rate of cortical firing, Current FLOPS prices, The cost of TEPS, Kurzweil and Allen on the singularity, Wikipedia history of GFLOPS costs. News updates You can now earmark donations for AI Impacts, if you care more about AI forecasting research than superintelligence alignment research. But if you trust MIRI to allocate funds, please make normal, unrestricted donations. CFAR will (conditionally) be running a three week summer program this July for MIRI, designed to increase participants' ability to do technical research into the superintelligence alignment problem. Details and application form are here. Other updates Musk and Gates on machine superintelligence. Gates has seconded Musk's recommendation of Superintelligence. As always, please don't hesitate to let us know if you have any questions or comments. Best, Luke Muehlhauser Executive Director
