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François Fleuret, my PhD advisor, recently gave a talk about object detection at Google (Zurich offices).

Held in Ile de Ré (France), 1-15th September, this school counted with some famous names within the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence communities: Rich Sutton (co-author of the widely adopted book on Reinforcement Learning), Isabelle Guyon (co-…

Last week I attended the International Computer Vision Summer School in Sicily, Italy.

Since the 1st of July, I am a PhD student at Idiap Research Institute and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne .

Think of an image of 800 x 600 pixel and 24 bit of color (8 bit per each RGB component).

I’m not sure it’s recent news, because there is a public release from as back as 2005, but I just came across this video of a monkey eating using a robotic arm directly controlled by his brain.

In this 10min TED talk, Joshua Klein talks about crows and how they are incredibly good learners.

Here you have a nice and very informative Google Tech Talk by Dr.

If everything goes as planned this year I am attending two Summer Schools.

Lately I have been wondering about the problem of Vision and how difficult it should be compared to problem of Artificial General Intelligence.

A fast recommendation to the people interested in assisting to video talks in their computers: http://www.videolectures.net The website is specially interesting for the Machine Learning community, given that it has currently almost 600 videos on the topic,

I will not be there, but I am looking forward to seeing what comes out of it.

I have recently found two tech reports written by Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter (IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland) in which they make very interesting reviews on the definitions of machine intelligence and ways to measure it.

Pei-Wang’s well-defined approach to Artificial General Intelligence takes as basic premises the fact that the agent has limited time and memory resources.

Another suggestion of a podcast, this time in the field of neuroscience.

I would like to recommend this book by Jeff Hawkins, in which the author tries to create a theory about the neocortex.

It’s now time to make the first suggestion about philosophy of mind.

In order to develop artificial intelligence further, it would be important to have a formal and quantitative way to measure intelligence of an agent, being it a human or a machine.

Welcome to the blog where you can find ideas, comments and reviews about Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Neuroscience, Consciousness and Philosophy of Mind.

Talking Robots is a “podcast featuring interviews with high-profile professionals in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for an inside view on the science, technology, and business of intelligent robotics”.

Back in 1956, the founders of the new AI research field (John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell and Hebert Simon) were deeply convinced that in a period of one generation we would have human-level intelligent computers.