On IIIM and CADIA’s open day last spring, Dr. Deon Garrett introduced two projects on Machine Learning. The first, Simultaneous Machine Learning of Many Diverse Tasks, involves creating new techniques for developing and evaluating methods for learning multiple skills through interaction with the real world. A second project revolves around improving the ability of artificial agents to have natural-sounding dialogues with humans by learning through experience. Continue reading Video Presentation from IIIM and CADIA’s Open Day – Dr. Deon Garrett→
For most, the word AI can bring to mind scenes of a world where computers with humanlike intelligence control everything. Fortunately, the experts believe that there are limits to this potential. Dr. Kristinn R. Thorisson and Dr. John E. Laird’s recent interview with Alexander Kruel helped dispel some concerns and misconceptions about AI that have existed since its beginning.
Topics covered everything from AI’s potential threat to human existence to its contribution to scientific progress. To view the answers click here.
Vilhjalmur A. Kjartansson interviewed Dr. Kristinn R. Thorisson, Director of IIIM, for the Sunday edition of Morgunbladid (published on August 18th, 2012).
The interview focuses on the recently completed AGI & Constructivist AI Summer School and some of its featured topics. The summer school covered the role of Artificial General Intelligence and explored what defines intelligence as we know it. You can read the interview here. (Note: The interview is in Icelandic).
CADIA’s GGP agent CADIA-Player won this year’s General Game Playing competition hosted at the AAAI conference, reclaiming the title it lost in 2009. On its road to the title it defeated winners from the previous two years. As a winner of the competition, CADIA-Player also played an exhibition match consisting of three games against a human player — Chris Welty from IBM — and won convincingly.
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