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Here at the Crown Plaza in Palo Alto for the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute’s AGI Workshop… people are just starting to show up, and it’s almost 2:00PM. The audience appears to be a balanced mix of AI researchers and general transhumanists/futurists, with very substantial overlap, of course. The first presenter is Ari Heljakka, a programmer with Novamente LLC and the CEO of Finnish AGI company GenMind Ltd. His talk is entitled “AGI & the Singularity”. It’s a general overview of Singularity ideas from Vernor Vinge, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ben Goertzel, and Ray Kurwzweil… Eliezer walks in while a slide of his is being shown, he’s wearing the same shirt as in the slide, everybody laughs.
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Headquartered in Mechelen, Belgium, Tibotec-Virco applies the latest techniques in ultra-high throughput screening, pharmacogenomics, molecular biology and artificial intelligence to discovering and developing new drugs. The company has drug discovery and development programs focusing on potential new drugs that are active against drug-resistant strains of HIV including two products in early clinical development. Tibotec-Virco ... has early stage research programs concentrating on the development of treatments for hepatitis C and other infectious diseases. In addition to its drug discovery operations, Tibotec-Virco provides HIV drug resistance testing and other analytical services under the name of Virco. The company has operations in Mechelen, Belgium, Durham, North Carolina and Dublin, Ireland.
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Five of the attendees of the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence reunited at the July AI@50 conference. From left: Trenchard More, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Oliver Selfridge, and Ray Solomonoff.
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One important artificial intelligence research direction at the Beckman Institute examines computational aspects of biological intelligence. Theories of cognition, perception, problem solving, and so on must be implementable if they are to be explanatory in nature rather than simply descriptive. This requirement is often neglected, but can place important constraints on the kinds of theories that should be entertained. Some such constraints are abstract, derived from the fact that computation is necessary in realizing the intelligent behavior. Other constraints are more specific, due to the form of the architecture of the computational medium. Regardless, a theory of the mind, whether philosophical, psychological, or neuropsychological, must be computationally tractable to be viable.
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The software applications developed by StreamSage are the result of years of research in the areas of computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and speech recognition. StreamSage continues to push the boundaries of the state-of-the-art through R&D contracts like a $2 million award from NIST's Advanced Technology Program an SBIR award from the National Science Foundation, and this AFRL contract. Contact StreamSage at 202-722-2440 or visit http://www.streamsage.com.
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This collection of Margaret Boden's essays written between 1982 and 1988 focuses on the relevance of artificial intelligence to psychology. With her usual clarity and eye for the key role that each discipline plays in the science of the mind, Boden ties the essays together in a thorough synoptic overview. She outlines the various approaches, from Babbage's contributions, through the work of Turing and von Neumann, to the latest theories of parallel processing, and the questions that researchers in AI and psychology must ask to ascertain if there might be a discipline termed computational psychology
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