MIRI Updates
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...
Yudkowsky on Logical Uncertainty
A paraphrased transcript of a conversation with Eliezer Yudkowsky. Interviewer: I’d love to get a clarification from you on one of the “open problems in Friendly AI.” The logical uncertainty problem that Benja Fallenstein tackled had to do with having...
Yudkowsky on “What can we do now?”
A paraphrased transcript of a conversation with Eliezer Yudkowsky. Interviewer: Suppose you’re talking to a smart mathematician who looks like the kind of person who might have the skills needed to work on a Friendly AI team. But, he says,...
