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Yudkowsky's outfit is the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, not the Singularity Institute. The latter might be Bostrom? Can't recall.
by exolymph 6y ago
Yudkowsky's outfit is the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, not the Singularity Institute. The latter might be Bostrom? Can't recall.
- pjscott 6y agoMIRI was, until 2013, called the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Apparently the name change was part of a deal with Singularity University to avoid brand confusion. Announcement here: https://intelligence.org/2013/01/30/we-are-now-the-machine-intelligence-research-institute-miri/ https://intelligence.org/2013/01/30/we-are-now-the-machine-i...
- notadonut 6y agoThank you. Thiel was an early backer of SI and attendee of the Singularity Summits that ran from 2006-2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Summit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Summit Soon after that, awareness of AI and superintelligence went mainstream, and we got FHI, FLI, etc. I don't know if Thiel backs MIRI as he did SI. Arguably, he doesn't need to. He made his money on DeepMind and helped trigger a larger movement, and other institutions with a lot more resources, like Alphabet and MSFT, carry forward the torch.