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FYI, Shane Legg's theses was "Machine Super Intelligence". http://www.vetta.org/publications/ http://www.vetta.org/publications/
by sanxiyn 13y ago
FYI, Shane Legg's theses was "Machine Super Intelligence". http://www.vetta.org/publications/ http://www.vetta.org/publications/
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoI'm really wondering where you have to go to grad-school for someone to approve a thesis that blatantly speculative.
- sanxiyn 13y agoUniversity of Lugano, apparently. I also quote, from the preface, "This research was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grants 2100-67712.0 and 200020-107616. Many funding agencies are not willing to support such blue-sky research. Their backing has been greatly appreciated."
- arethuza 13y agoI skimmed it and didn't think it was that bad - it's kind of interesting to see a thesis that allows reasonably informed speculation. I don't know enough about ML to say whether the core results are actually of any value. The title is a bit much but it does say "The title of this thesis is deliberately provocative".
- eli_gottlieb 13y agoI didn't say "speculative" as a bad thing. I meant it more with overtones of "brave" or "ballsy" or, let's just sum up, "heroic".
- arethuza 13y agoAh yes - I did wonder if I had misinterpreted your comment after I posted mine... :-)
- sieisteinmodel 13y agoWhatever the uni. He was working at IDSIA, one of the main contributors to deep learning. Also, his advisor, Markus Hutter, did some serious stuff on AGI.
- baddox 13y agoDid you read the paper? I skimmed it, and wouldn't describe it as "blatantly speculative." There are certainly predictions based on facts (or at least, claims which are believed to be facts, but I repeat myself), but I don't think those are out of place in a thesis.