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Singularity Institute Research Challenge

By razib on January 4, 2010.

The Singularity Institute is having a fundraising drive right now. Here are the details:

...the Singularity Institute has launched a new challenge campaign. The sponsors, Edwin Evans, Rolf Nelson, Henrik Jonsson, Jason Joachim, and Robert Lecnik, have generously put up $100,000 of matching funds, so that every donation you make until February 28th will be matched dollar for dollar. If the campaign is successful, it will raise a full $200,000 to fund SIAI's 2010 activities.

Starting this campaign, we've put more details of our ongoing and potential work online than ever before, so you can get an overview of what projects we're doing, and so you can easily fund the proposals you support most....

It runs to the end of February. Check out their list of grant proposals.

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I must just be too skeptical of AI. (I think there's more physically to the brain than a computer simulation can achieve - plus I find Herbert Dreyfus' Heideggarian takedown of AI to be pretty persuasive) I also get nervous about pushing "anthropic reasoning" too much. It's too close to transcendental logic. Fun if you're in philosophy and studying Kant but outside of metaphysics and epistemology...

Of course I do work that is broadly cast within the AI category. But I think machine training and data mining are best not conceived of in terms of intelligence.

But more power to these folks if they are giving academic grad students money. Especially in this economy. I'd probably make an application myself were I still in the Academy.