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MIRI November Newsletter
Published
November 4, 2015
Author
Ariel Conn
MIRI
MIRI, one of our partner organizations, has just sent out their November newsletter, put together by Rob Bensinger. Check out the links below to learn more about the great work they do!
Research updates
- A new paper: Leó Szilárd and the Danger of Nuclear Weapons
- New at IAFF: Subsequence Induction
- A shortened version of the Reflective Oracles paper has been published in theLORI 2015 conference proceedings.
General updates
- Castify has released professionally recorded audio versions of Eliezer Yudkowsky'sRationality: From AI to Zombies: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
- I've put together a list of excerpts from the many responses to the 2015 Edge.org question, "What Do You Think About Machines That Think?"
News and links
- Nick Bostrom speaks on AI risk at the United Nations. (Further information.)
- Bostrom gives a half-hour BBCÂ interview. (UK-only video.)
- Elon Musk and Sam Altman discuss futurism and technology with Vanity Fair.
- From the Open Philanthropy Project:Â What do we know about AI timelines?
- From the Global Priorities Project:Â Three areas of research on the superintelligence control problem.
- Paul Christiano writes on inverse reinforcement learning and value of information.
- The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is looking to hire four post-docs to study technological risk. The application deadline is early November 12th.
Best,
Rob Bensinger
Machine Intelligence Research Institute
rob@intelligence.org
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