Episode 2: People

How do people factor in to my intelligence framework? What is our reward function

Episode 1: Intelligence and Rewards

... in which I talk about what intelligence is and what rewards are. What problem am I trying to solve?

First post!

Hello there!

I'm Joseph. I just started a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. I want to make thinking machines - I think that would be _TOTALLY_ rockin'.

- Yes; I've watched battlestar and 'AI' and iRobot. But, AI doesn't really work like that. It needs a reward function which we give it. Imagine having robots make all the food, and build all our houses and clean up after us. We could do so much good with strong artificial intelligences. It'll completely change how our society works, but it would do so for the better.

Anyway, thats the goal; but I'm a long way from it.

I'm going to have a video blog where I explain all the AI bits as I work them out. First episode uploading now!