| Charlie Rose - SACHS / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PANEL - 3389 sec Jeffrey Sachs, Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University / Special Adviser to UN Secretary /// Rodney Brooks, Director, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory / Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, MIT / Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, iRobot; Eric Horvitz, Senior Researcher & Group Manager, Adaptive Systems & Interactions Group, Microsoft Research; Ron Brachman, Director, Information Processing Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency / President, American Association for Artificial Intelligence Tags:charlie_rose tvshow sv_charlierose sv hp  | | Polyworld: Using Evolution to Design Artificial Intelligence - 3998 sec Google Tech Talks
November, 8 2007
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This presentation is about a potential shortcut to artificial intelligence by trading mind-design for world-design using artificial evolution. Evolutionary algorithms are a pump for turning CPU cycles into brain designs. With exponentially increasing CPU cycles while our understanding of intelligence is almost a flat-line, the evolutionary route to AI is a centerpiece of most Kurzweilian singularity scenarios. This talk introduces the Polyworld artificial life simulator as well as results from our ongoing attempt to evolve artificial intelligence and further the Singularity.
Polyworld is the brain child of Apple Computer Distinguished Scientist Larry Yaeger, who remains the primary developer of Polyworld:
http://www.beanblossom.in.us/larryy/Polyworld.html
Speaker: Virgil Griffith
Virgil Griffith is a first year graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. On weekdays he studies evolution, computational neuroscience, and artificial life. He did computer security work until his first year of university when his work got him sued for sedition and espionage. He then decided that security was probably not safest field to be in and he turned his life to science. Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education | | Artificial intelligence and digital media - 3403 sec Google Tech Talks
February, 22 2008
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By using parameterization methods which model the knowledge space of a social or cognitive process, it is possible to use artificial intelligence techniques such as Neural Networks and Genetic Programming to create new types of visualization, creation, search and expression for a range of digital media. Steve DiPaola will discuss and demonstrate his research in cognitive 3D and 2D graphics, AI and simulation work, including real-time voice- and behavior-based 3D facial communication, simulated critters (an interacting group of whales) and creative exploration over optimized search as well as cognitively-based computational photography and music. (See ivizlab.sfu.ca).
Speaker: Steve DiPaola
Artist and scientist Steve DiPaola is a professor at Simon Frazier University.
He directs iVizLab, which strives to make interactive and simulation
systems bend more to the human experience by incorporating biological and
cognitive models. He came to SFU from Stanford and NYIT CGL and has
held leadership positions at Electronic Arts, Saatchi Innovation and
Silicon Valley start-ups. His art has been exhibited internationally, at
venues including the AIR and Tibor de Nagy galleries in NYC, the Whitney
Museum and the Smithsonian. He has collaborated with Nam June Paik and
Kraftwerk and is known for making new media tools used equally by
artists and scientists. (See dipaola.org). Tags: google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education | | | | | | | | | | | | Craig Venter - Creating Artificial Life - 292 sec Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/02/25/Joining_3_5_Billion_Years_of_Microbial_Invention
Celebrity geneticist Craig Venter discusses his laboratory's processes for creating artificial microbes.
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Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention featuring biologist J. Craig Venter.
Biologist, author and businessman Craig Venter discusses his work mapping and synthesizing genomes. Venter recalls his work mapping the human genome and expands on his current work which includes categorizing new genes and species of microbes from ocean water. Venter also explains how microbial research can be used for metabolic engineering and alternative energy sources.
J. Craig Venter, PH.D. is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his contributions to genomic research and is one of the countrys most frequently cited scientists. He is Founder and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute and J. Craig Venter Science Foundation, not-for-profit research and support organizations dedicated to human genomic research, exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics, and alternative energy solutions through microbial sources. He is also the Founder and Chairman of the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR).
Dr. Venter began his formal education after serving as a Navy Corpsman in Danang, Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. After earning a bachelors degree in biochemistry and a Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology, both from the University of California at San Diego and both in three years, he was appointed professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. In 1984, he moved to the National Institutes of Health, where he developed expressed-sequence tags (ESTs), a revolutionary strategy for gene discovery. In 1992, he founded TIGR, where he and his team decoded the genome of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using an original whole-genome shotgun technique. Since then, TIGR has sequenced more than 50 genomes using Dr. Venter's techniques.
Dr. Venter is the author of more than 200 articles and the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, public honors, and scientific awards, including the Financial Times Man of the Year Award, TIME Magazine Man of the Year (runner up), 2002 Gairdner Foundation International Award, and the 2001 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize. Dr. Venter is a member of numerous prestigious scientific organizations including, including the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Society for Microbiology. He was also one of the first 38 people to be selected by Desmond Tutu as part of the "Hands That Shape Humanity" world exhibition.
Dr. Venter's autobiography A Life Decoded was published in October of 2007. Tags: biology dna genetics microbes science scientist genome bacteria biological weapons lab test man made research foratv | | Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time - 3146 sec Google Tech Talks
May 30, 2007
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Dr. Ben Goertzel - Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time Essay: www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0701.html Abstract: When the AI field was founded over 50 years ago, it was squarely focused on the grand dream of creating software displaying general intelligence at the human level or beyond. Since that time the field has drifted in a direction Ray Kurzweil has called "Narrow AI": the creation of intelligent software applications carrying out highly particular functions. The relationship between this sort of narrow AI and "artificial general intelligence" (AGI) as in the original dreams of the AI field, is an issue of dispute among experts. Some... Tags:google howto artificial general intelligence |
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