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Shane Legg: Machine Super-Intelligence

September 10th, 2008 – Joshua Fox

Dr. Shane Legg has published his dissertation, Machine Super-Intelligence. Continuing in the line of research of Professors Marcus Hutter and Jürgen Schmidhuber, Legg explores theoretical models for artificial general intelligence. He also discusses the practical possibilities for achieving AGI and its ethical implications, with a reference to SIAI’s work in the field.

Dr. Legg recently received a fellowship from SIAI-Canada.