Universal Algorithmic Intelligence

This Monday (October 6th at 12 pm ET), David Quarel will join the reading group on “An Introduction to Universal Artificial Intelligence” (IUAI) to answer questions on the context tree weighting (CTW) algorithm.

David Quarel is an author of IUAI who wrote chapter 4 of the book on CTW. He is a PhD student at ANU advised by Marcus Hutter and has taught at multiple iterations of the ARENA program on AI safety (including one that I attended, thanks David!). Recently he is working on singular learning theory.

CTW is a practical and general Bayesian sequence prediction algorithm which is useful for building intuition about Solomonoff induction. It is also the basis for my favorite AIXI approximation. This chapter is reasonably self-contained, so it is fine to drop in this week without having attended the previous meetings as long as you have attempted the reading/exercises listed in the calendar event. The zoom link is the same as last week, if you are not sure you have it please reach out to me: colewyeth@gmail.com

Note that this is part of the textbook reading group, NOT the regular research meeting on the same day.

See you there!