Epstein Secrets

are with us natural conscious agents our vulnerability or our mortality. I once posed a challenge to students in a seminar at Tufts I co-taught with Matthias Scheutz on artificial agents and autonomy: Give me the specs for a robot that could sign a binding contract with you—not as a surrogate for some human owner

ct with any precision when such a development might occur.” e You're just a Luddite. It’s an odd definition of Luddite that includes Turing, Wiener, Minsky, Musk, and Gates, who rank among the most prominent contributors to technological progress in the 20th and 21st centuries.* Furthermore, the epithet

g organized by Heinz Pagels, the president of the New York Academy of Sciences. I had a seat at the table alongside the leaders of the 1“ generation, Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, the 2"! generation, Edward Feigenbaum 13 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016816 and Roger Schank, and Joseph Traub, head of the National Superc

are with us natural conscious agents our vulnerability or our mortality. I once posed a challenge to students in a seminar at Tufts I co-taught with Matthias Scheutz on artificial agents and autonomy: Give me the specs for a robot that could sign a binding contract with you—not as a surrogate for some human owner

ct with any precision when such a development might occur.” e You're just a Luddite. It’s an odd definition of Luddite that includes Turing, Wiener, Minsky, Musk, and Gates, who rank among the most prominent contributors to technological progress in the 20th and 21st centuries.* Furthermore, the epithet

g organized by Heinz Pagels, the president of the New York Academy of Sciences. I had a seat at the table alongside the leaders of the 1“ generation, Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, the 2"! generation, Edward Feigenbaum 13 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016233 and Roger Schank, and Joseph Traub, head of the National Superc

ha Bach, Institute of Cogni- tive Science, University of Osnabruck, Germany; Robert Coop, University of Tennessee; Rod Furlan, Singularity Institute; Matthias Scheutz, Indiana University; J. Storrs Hall, Foresight Institute; Alexei Samsonovich, George Mason University; Matt Schlesinger, Southern Illinois University

ur vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.” This perspective was extended in the more recent work The Emotion Machine [Min07], where Minsky argued that emotions are “ways to think” evolved to handle different “problem types” that exist in the world. The brain is posited to have rule-based

y workshops gave me some powerful intuitions about what *not* to do in such a workshop, and we have a couple other veterans of those workshops here (Matthias Scheutz and Joscha Bach). The convention with such workshops is to pay participants' travel, meals and lodging and so I'm wondering if you might be able t

hops that John Laird and Pat Langley organized in Nov 08 and Feb 09 and I attended ... and I think vaguely similar to a workshop that you held with Minsky and others some years ago. However, I think this time we are poised to do it right, because we have a careful plan going in, and because at least tw