MIRI Updates
In our last major updates—our 2017 strategic update and fundraiser posts—we said that our current focus is on technical research and executing our biggest-ever hiring push. Our supporters responded with an incredible show of support at the end of the...
Updates New posts to the new AI Alignment Forum: Buridan’s Ass in Coordination Games; Probability is Real, and Value is Complex; Safely and Usefully Spectating on AIs Optimizing Over Toy Worlds MIRI Research Associate Vanessa Kosoy wins a $7500 AI...
Updates A new paper: “Forecasting Using Incomplete Models“ New research write-ups and discussions: Prisoners’ Dilemma with Costs to Modeling; Counterfactual Mugging Poker Game; Optimization Amplifies Eliezer Yudkowsky, Paul Christiano, Jessica Taylor, and Wei Dai discuss Alex Zhu’s FAQ for Paul’s...
MIRI Research Associate Vanessa Kosoy has a paper out on issues in naturalized induction: “Forecasting using incomplete models”. Abstract: We consider the task of forecasting an infinite sequence of future observations based on some number of past observations, where the...
Updates New research write-ups and discussions: Logical Inductors Converge to Correlated Equilibria (Kinda) MIRI researcher Tsvi Benson-Tilsen and Alex Zhu ran an AI safety retreat for MIT students and alumni. Andrew Critch discusses what kind of advice to give to...
Updates New research write-ups and discussions: Resource-Limited Reflective Oracles; Computing An Exact Quantilal Policy New at AI Impacts: Promising Research Projects MIRI research fellow Scott Garrabrant and associates Stuart Armstrong and Vanessa Kosoy are among the winners in the second...
