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This is a guest post by Iliad. Our thanks to Marcus Hutter for the invitation to post here. TL;DR: Iliad runs funded training and research programs in mathematical AI alignment, and we think the UAI community is well prepared for them. Applications for the October and November Intensives are open (apply here). If the programs…
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Aram Ebtekar, a returning speaker and founding research scientist at AIXI Labs, will present his (new) justification for Solomonoff induction at tomorrow’s regular research meeting, Monday July 13th at 3 pm EDT. Aram discusses the obstacle that No Free Lunch poses for developing a theory of generalization, and a practical sense in which Solomonoff induction,…
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Anthony DiGiovanni, a researcher at the Center on Long-Term Risk, will talk to us about his Safe Pareto Improvements research agenda during an extra meeting tomorrow (Monday, July 6th), 3 pm EDT. We will use the regular zoom link. The Safe Pareto Improvements (SPI) agenda is intended to reduce the risks of catastrophic cooperation failures…
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The first two AIXI Labs fellows have been selected: Yegon Kim and Gabriel Leuenberger. Congratulations to both! Yegon continues his work on model-free AIXI, while Gabriel studies embedded agency and Occam’s razor. Other applicants will automatically be reconsidered for future fellowship rounds (the next starts in September).
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Marcus Hutter describes this new paper as “a short recap of the last ~15 publications over 5 years of the Universal Artificial Intelligence team” (at Google DeepMind): https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/28/6/596 Abstract: The success of large neural networks trained for sequential prediction via log-loss minimization over massive and diverse datasets has sparked debate regarding the fundamental limits of…
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The Australasian AIT reading group will be holding weekly meetings to discuss assigned readings from Li & Vitanyi’s An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and its Applications, every Tuesday at 12:00 AEST (Monday at 19:00 PT). This is the canonical reference on the mathematical foundations of algorithmic information theory! No reading is assigned for the first…
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I am excited to announce that we are now offering fellowships at our new ASI safety org, AIXI Labs! Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpKSZKcMUZCkMaBncmbDSSdVcHKodDmdALUTOOheGF_NMHuQ/viewform?usp=publish-editor Focus. If you have been closely engaged with this community (or AIT, AIXI, and/or ML), you should consider applying! There is a good chance we can find a research match, since we are…
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Professor Francesca Zaffora Blando will present her work on weak merging of opinions at the regular research meeting tomorrow, Monday April 27th, at 3 pm EDT. Francesca Zaffora Blando is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University specializing in logic, formal epistemology, and the philosophy of science – particularly the…
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Sven Neth will discuss his paper “Against Optimization” at an extra research meeting tomorrow, April 13th at 3 pm EDT, using the regular zoom link. This will be our second consecutive talk on AI safety (related topics)! Indeed, Sven’s paper was inspired by the limitations of “Consequences of Misaligned AI” by Zhuang and Hadfield-Menell, and…
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We are excited to announce the Third Symposium on Algorithmic Information Theory and Machine Learning this July 27 – 29 at the University of Oxford! See the details here: https://sites.google.com/site/boumedienehamzi/third-symposium-on-machine-learning-and-algorithmic-information-theory The third iteration of the symposium is particularly focused on applications of AIT to the theory and practice of AI safety. AIXI has long been…
Universal Algorithmic Intelligence 