Past progress reports: January 2012, December 2011. Here’s what the Machine Intelligence Research Institute did in February 2012: Winter fundraiser completed: Thanks to the generous contributions of our supporters, our latest winter fundraiser was a success, raising much more than our target of $100,000! Research articles: Luke and Anna published the Singularity Summit 2011 Workshop Report and released a draft of their article Intelligence Explosion: Evidence… Read more »
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2011-2012 Winter Fundraiser Completed
Thanks to our dedicated supporters, we met our goal for our 2011-2012 Winter Fundraiser. Thank you! The fundraiser ran for 56 days, from December 27, 2011 to February 20, 2012. We exceeded our $100K goal, raising a total of $143,048.84 from 101 individual donors. Every donation that the Machine Intelligence Research Institute receives is powerful… Read more »
Machine Intelligence Research Institute Progress Report, January 2012
Past progress report: December 2011. Here’s what the Machine Intelligence Research Institute did in January 2012: Winter fundraiser: We continued raising funds in January, but we still have about $30,000 left to go in our winter fundraiser before the deadline of February 20th. Please support our recent efforts toward greater transparency, efficiency, and productivity by… Read more »
Q&A #2 with Luke Muehlhauser, Machine Intelligence Research Institute Executive Director
Machine Intelligence Research Institute Activities Bugmaster asks: …what does the SIAI actually do? You don’t submit your work to rigorous scrutiny by your peers in the field… you either aren’t doing any AGI research, or are keeping it so secret that no one knows about it… and you aren’t developing any practical applications of AI,… Read more »
2011 Machine Intelligence Research Institute Winter Fundraiser
Help us raise $100,000 that will go towards funding a website redesign, new research papers, and staging a bigger and better Singularity Summit 2012 in San Francisco. This fundraiser ends January 20th, so please contribute now to help us achieve our goal! Donate now! $0 $25K $50K $75K $100K This is your last chance to make… Read more »
Interview with New MIRI Research Fellow Luke Muehlhauser
Section One: Background and Core Ideas Q1. What is your personal background? Q2. Why should we care about artificial intelligence? Q3. Why do you think smarter-than-human artificial intelligence is possible? Q4. The mission of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute is to “to ensure that the creation of smarter-than- human intelligence benefits society.” How is your… Read more »
Machine Intelligence Research Institute Strategic Plan 2011
The Machine Intelligence Research Institute has prepared a Strategic Plan (PDF) to concisely describe our near-term goals, vision, and concrete actions in pursuit of those goals and vision. We welcome commentary from our supporter community on the plan. The release of this Strategic Plan is part of an overall effort to increase transparency at the… Read more »
Tallinn-Evans Challenge Grant Success!
Thanks to the effort of our donors, the Tallinn-Evans Singularity Challenge has been met! All $125,000 contributed will be matched dollar for dollar by Jaan Tallinn and Edwin Evans, raising a total of $250,000 to fund the Machine Intelligence Research Institute’s operations in 2011. On behalf of our staff, volunteers, and entire community, I want… Read more »
