MIRI Updates
MIRI’s May 2014 Newsletter
On May 6th, there is $250,000+ in matching funds and prizes available from sources that normally wouldn’t contribute to MIRI at all. Details here. Research Updates New paper: “The errors, insights, and lessons of famous AI predictions.” Botworld update with...
New Paper: “The errors, insights, and lessons of famous AI predictions”
During his time as a MIRI researcher, Kaj Sotala contributed to a paper now published in the Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence: “The errors, insights and lessons of famous AI predictions – and what they mean for the...
Suresh Jagannathan on higher-order program verification
Dr. Suresh Jagannathan joined DARPA in September 2013. His research interests include programming languages, compilers, program verification, and concurrent and distributed systems. Prior to joining DARPA, Dr. Jagannathan was a professor of computer science at Purdue University. He has also...
Ruediger Schack on quantum Bayesianism
Ruediger Schack is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics at the University of Munich in 1991 and held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for...
David J. Atkinson on autonomous systems
David J. Atkinson, Ph.D, is a Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). His current area of research envisions future applications of intelligent, autonomous agents, perhaps embodied as robots, who work alongside humans as...
Help MIRI in a Massive 24-Hour Fundraiser on May 6th
Update: We’re now liveblogging the fundraiser here. On May 6th, MIRI is participating in Silicon Valley Gives. We were selected to participate along with other local Bay Area charities by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. On this day, we recommend...
