MIRI Updates
The Lean Nonprofit
Can Lean Startup methods work for nonprofits? The Lean Startup‘s author Eric Ries seems to think so: A startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty… Anyone who is creating...
Early draft of naturalistic reflection paper
Update: See Reflection in Probabilistic Logic for more details on how this result relates to MIRI’s research mission. In a recent blog post we described one of the results of our 1st MIRI Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection: The...
March Newsletter
Greetings From The Executive Director Friends, As previously announced on our blog, the Singularity Institute has been renamed as the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). Naturally, both our staff and our supporters have positive associations with our original name,...
Upcoming MIRI Research Workshops
From November 11-18, 2012, we held (what we now call) the 1st MIRI Workshop on Logic, Probability, and Reflection. This workshop had four participants: Eliezer Yudkowsky (MIRI) Paul Christiano (UC Berkeley) Marcello Herreshoff (Google) Mihály Bárász (Google) The participants worked...
Welcome to Intelligence.org
Welcome to the new home for the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI), formerly called “The Singularity Institute.” The new design (from Katie Hartman, who also designed the new site for CFAR) reflects our recent shift in focus from “movement-building” to...
We are now the “Machine Intelligence Research Institute” (MIRI)
When Singularity University (SU) acquired the Singularity Summit from us in December, we also agreed to change the name of our institute to avoid brand confusion between the Singularity Institute and Singularity University. After much discussion and market research, we’ve...
