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In this issue read about: our successful efforts with Rögg ehf to improve search-and-rescue operations and CEO Rögg Baldvin Hansson’s interview on how he turned an inspired idea to practical implementation; IIIM Managing Director Kristinn R. Thórisson’s thoughts on publication licensing; highlights from IIIM & CADIA’s Open Day; and much more from the ever-changing field of AI.
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AGI’s summer school entered its fourth year, enticing fifty students to Beijing, China for an intensive two weeks of instruction. Hosted by some of the most innovative researchers in the field of AGI including Dr. Pei Wang, Dr. Kristinn R. Thorisson, and Ben Goertzel, AGI’s summer school not only focused on building a theoretical groundwork for interested students but emphasized how to apply these ideas to issues in the field. There was no cost to attend the program and a wide range of students traveled from many different countries for the chance to become the future of AGI.
Continue reading AGI Summer School Headed to Beijing in 2013
by Kristinn R. Thórisson,
Directing Manager of IIIM and
Aperio Program Director
The educational system has never been as important as it is now. We have established a robust educational system with subdivisions along students’ age and “level”; but, while the system offers a variety of topics to study, it also has some drawbacks. One of them is the idea that, since it is impossible to teach anything and everything from A to Z in the first 10-15 years of a person’s education, a subset of targeted teaching material and topics must be chosen from a larger set. Continue reading Bucking Copy-Paste Mentality in the Mass-Production of Knowledge – A Personal View
Pioneering British scientist Alan Turing’s 100th birthday is celebrated this year, prompting Peter Spinks to question if machines could soon pass the Turing test. If passed, this test represents the ultimate achievement in computer science: a computer which thinks like a human. IIIM’s Managing Director Dr. Kristinn R. Thorisson is positive that faster, more powerful computers will lead to computers that “think”. To read more click on theage.com.au.
