MIRI Updates
2014 Winter Matching Challenge!
Update: we have finished the matching challenge! Thanks everyone! The original post is below. Thanks to the generosity of Peter Thiel, ((Peter Thiel has pledged $150,000 to MIRI unconditionally, and an additional $100,000 conditional on us being able to raise...
Three misconceptions in Edge.org’s conversation on “The Myth of AI”
A recent Edge.org conversation — “The Myth of AI” — is framed in part as a discussion of points raised in Bostrom’s Superintelligence, and as a response to much-repeated comments by Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking that seem to have...
Video of Bostrom’s talk on Superintelligence at UC Berkeley
In September, MIRI hosted Nick Bostrom at UC Berkeley to discuss his new book Superintelligence. A video and transcript of that talk are now available from BookTV by C-SPAN, which also has a DVD of the event available.
...A new guide to MIRI’s research
Nate Soares has written “A Guide to MIRI’s Research,” which outlines the main thrusts of MIRI’s current research agenda and provides recommendations for which textbooks and papers to study so as to understand what’s happening at the cutting edge. This...
MIRI’s November Newsletter
Research Updates New Friendly AI research area: “Corrigibility.” New report: “UDT with known search order.” 2 new analyses: “AGI outcomes and civilizational competence” and “The Financial Times story on MIRI.” Video of Nate Soares’ decision theory talk at...
The Financial Times story on MIRI
Richard Waters wrote a story on MIRI and others for Financial Times, which also put Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence at the top of its summer science reading list. It’s a good piece. Go read it and then come back here so...
