Today we release a new technical report by Nate Soares, “The value learning problem.” If you’d like to discuss the paper, please do so here. Abstract: A superintelligent machine would not automatically act as intended: it will act as programmed,...
Today we release a new technical report by Nate Soares, “Formalizing two problems of realistic world models.” If you’d like to discuss the paper, please do so here. Abstract: An intelligent agent embedded within the real world must reason about...
Today we release a new technical report by Benja Fallenstein and Nate Soares, “Vingean Reflection: Reliable Reasoning for Self-Improving Agents.” If you’d like to discuss the paper, please do so here. Abstract: Today, human-level machine intelligence is in the domain...
Recently, MIRI received a targeted donation to improve the AI Impacts website initially created by frequent MIRI collaborator Paul Christiano and part-time MIRI researcher Katja Grace. Collaborating with Paul and Katja, we ported the old content to a more robust...
Today we release a new technical report by Nate Soares and Benja Fallenstein, “Questions of reasoning under logical uncertainty.” If you’d like to discuss the paper, please do so here. Abstract: A logically uncertain reasoner would be able to reason...
Dr. Matthias Troyer is a professor of Computational Physics at ETH Zürich. Before that, he finished University Studies in “Technischer Physik” at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria, as well as Diploma in Physics and Interdisciplinary PhD thesis at the...