Future Salon

Strong AI Future Salon

Update: Eliezer reminded me that the focus of his talk will be the following as stated in the original post Hard AI:

"Recursive Self-Improvement and the World's Most Important Math Problem." In 1965, I. J. Good suggested that smarter minds can make themselves even smarter, leading to a runaway positive feedback that I. J. Good termed the "intelligence explosion". But how do you build an Artificial Intelligence such that it remains stable and friendly through the ascent to superintelligence? Eliezer Yudkowsky talks about the implications of recursive self-improvement, and how it poses the most important math problem of this generation.

One of my observations of the IA-AI Accelerating Change Conference last year was, that most people lean towards the side of intelligence augmentation versus machine intelligence surpassing our capability.

Is that because we feel more comfortable with us being a center part of the next stage of the evolution or is it really fact based?

Eliezer Yudkowsky tomorrow Friday 24th of February at the Future Salon will make the case for the machines. I am curious what the always interesting and stimulating Future Salon audience will lean towards. Come and join us.

Hard AI Future Salon 24th Feb

Update: Link to RSVP. We will webcast the event. Check the Wiki for the details. IRC chat as always: Server: irc.freenode.net Channel: #futuresalon

Next Future Salon Friday February 24th Hard AI with Eliezer Yudkowsky: 

"Recursive Self-Improvement and the World's Most Important Math
Problem." In 1965, I. J. Good suggested that smarter minds can make
themselves even smarter, leading to a runaway positive feedback that I. J. Good termed the "intelligence explosion". But how do you build an
Artificial Intelligence such that it remains stable and friendly through
the ascent to superintelligence? Eliezer Yudkowsky talks about the
implications of recursive self-improvement, and how it poses the most important math problem of this generation.

This one is going to be really interesting, because Eliezer has thought deeply about Artificial Intelligence and what will happen when machine intelligence is surpassing our own in the not so distant future for a very long time and it scares the hell out of a lot of people, one more reason for us to take a closer look. Please add your link to the companion Wiki page.

Berkeley Cybersalon: The Future of Radio

Remember not too long ago we had a Radio Future Salon. That was more about the open source technology that enables open radio. This Future of Radio Cybersalon organized by our Berkeley friends is focusing on the trends of the medium Radio which is changing in two radically divergent ways: big broadcasters like Clear Channel that rely on advertising are buying up little stations, while subscriber-based satellite channels, public radio channels, and podcasts are proliferating. What’s a listener to do?

Come hear from experts in public radio, commercial radio, and the mechanics of radio what you can expect from radio in the future and how you can make intelligent choices about your future and radio as well.

Berkeley Cybersalon: The Future of Radio 5-7 p.m., Sunday, February 19, 2006 The Hillside Club 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley