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In expectation of increasingly useful artificial intelligence advances, a new organization, now called the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) was formed. This organization also spun off a new organization in 2012, the Center for Applied Rationality. Below is Wikipedia’s discussion of these developments.
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The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 to develop safe artificial intelligence software, and to raise awareness of both the dangers and potential benefits it believes AI presents. The organization advocates ideas initially put forth by I.J. Good and Vernor Vinge regarding an "intelligence explosion" or Singlarity, which is predicted to follow the creation of sufficiently advanced AI. In their view, the potential benefits and risks of this event necessitate the search for solutions to problems involving AI goal systems to ensure powerful AIs are not dangerous when they are created. MIRI espouses the Friendly AI model created by its co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky as a potential solution to such problems. MIRI was formerly known as the Singularity Institute, and before that the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Luke Muehlhauser is Executive Director. Inventor and futures author Ray Kurzweil served as one of its directors from 2007 to 2010. The institute maintains an advisory board whose members include Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, and Foresight Nanotech Institute co-founder Christine Peterson. It is tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, and has a Canadian branch, SIAI-CA, formed in 2004 and recognized as a Charitable Organization by the Canada Revenue Agency.
Center for Applied Rationality
In mid-2012, the Institute spun off a new organization called the Center for Applied Rationality, whose focus is to help people apply the principles of rationality in their day-to-day life and to research and develop de-biasing techniques.
[online at: http://appliedrationality.org/ ]
Usefulness
Dr. Hugo de Garis dubbed the organization the "singhilarity institute" in a recent H+ Magazine article, saying that creating truly safe artificial intelligence is utterly impossible. However, Dr. James Miller believes that even if the organization has no prospect of creating friendly AI, it more than justifies its existence simply by spreading awareness of the risks of unfriendly AI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Institute_for_Artificial_Intelligence In expectation of increasingly useful artificial intelligence advances, a new organization, now called the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) was formed. This organization also spun off a new organization in 2012, the Center for Applied Rationality. Below is Wikipedia’s discussion of these developments.
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The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) is a non-profit organization founded in 2000 to develop safe artificial intelligence software, and to raise awareness of both the dangers and potential benefits it believes AI presents. The organization advocates ideas initially put forth by I.J. Good and Vernor Vinge regarding an "intelligence explosion" or Singlarity, which is predicted to follow the creation of sufficiently advanced AI. In their view, the potential benefits and risks of this event necessitate the search for solutions to problems involving AI goal systems to ensure powerful AIs are not dangerous when they are created. MIRI espouses the Friendly AI model created by its co-founder Eliezer Yudkowsky as a potential solution to such problems. MIRI was formerly known as the Singularity Institute, and before that the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Luke Muehlhauser is Executive Director. Inventor and futures author Ray Kurzweil served as one of its directors from 2007 to 2010. The institute maintains an advisory board whose members include Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, and Foresight Nanotech Institute co-founder Christine Peterson. It is tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, and has a Canadian branch, SIAI-CA, formed in 2004 and recognized as a Charitable Organization by the Canada Revenue Agency.
Center for Applied Rationality
In mid-2012, the Institute spun off a new organization called the Center for Applied Rationality, whose focus is to help people apply the principles of rationality in their day-to-day life and to research and develop de-biasing techniques.
[online at: http://appliedrationality.org/ ]
Usefulness
Dr. Hugo de Garis dubbed the organization the "singhilarity institute" in a recent H+ Magazine article, saying that creating truly safe artificial intelligence is utterly impossible. However, Dr. James Miller believes that even if the organization has no prospect of creating friendly AI, it more than justifies its existence simply by spreading awareness of the risks of unfriendly AI.
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