Take a look at our latest newsletter and read about Bala Kamallakharan’s views on IIIM and the startup environment in Iceland. You can also get a glimpse at a future filled with robotics through reading Frank Tobe’s article on robotics startups, read about IIIM’s origins and more!
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Kristinn R. Thórisson, IIIM Managing Director, and his collaborators Helgi Páll Helgason and Eric Nivel, received the 2012 Kurzweil Award for Best AGI Idea at this year’s AGI conference at Oxford University in Cambridge. We interview two of the paper’s authors, Helgi Páll Helgason and Kristinn R. Thórisson, regarding the award and what the next steps in their research will entail.
Read more Kristinn R. Thórisson, IIIM Managing Director, and his collaborators Helgi Páll Helgason and Eric Nivel, have received the 2012 Kurzweil Award for Best AGI Idea. The prize was awarded for their research on attention mechanisms, and to one other paper, at this year’s AGI conference at Oxford University in Cambridge. The award was founded by [...]
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Recently, h+ Magazine published an article by Ben Goertzel titled “Land of Fire, Ice and Thinking Machines: The Recent Rise of AI in Iceland, and an Interview with the Thorisson Brothers who Helped Make it Happen”. In the article the author reviews the recent history of AI in Iceland and presents an interview with Kristinn R. Thórisson and [...]
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The Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture (BICA) will be held from October 31st until November 3rd in Palermo, Italy. The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind, known as the BICA Challenge, calls for joint efforts to develop biologically-inspired intelligent agents that can be accepted and trusted in [...]
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by Kristinn R. Thórisson, Directing Manager of IIIM and Aperio Program Director The educational system has never been as important as it is now. We have established a robust educational system with subdivisions along students’ age and “level”; but, while the system offers a variety of topics to study, it also has some drawbacks. One [...]
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Creating systems that respond promptly to human cues is a daunting task that requires international and cross-field collaboration. On October 5-6th, IIIM Director Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson will feature as the keynote speaker of a workshop in Hamburg, Germany. In Dr. Thórisson’s two decades of experience in industry and academia, he has pioneered new ideas [...]
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For most, the word AI can bring to mind scenes of a world where computers with humanlike intelligence control everything. Fortunately, the experts believe that there are limits to this potential. Dr. Kristinn R. Thorisson and Dr. John E. Laird’s recent interview with Alexander Kruel helped dispel some concerns and misconceptions about AI that have existed [...]
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Vilhjalmur A. Kjartansson interviewed Dr. Kristinn R. Thorisson, Director of IIIM, for the Sunday edition of Morgunbladid (published on August 18th, 2012). The interview focuses on the recently completed AGI & Constructivist AI Summer School and some of its featured topics. The summer school covered the role of Artificial General Intelligence and explored what defines [...]
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Pioneering British scientist Alan Turing’s 100th birthday is celebrated this year, prompting Peter Spinks to question if machines could soon pass the Turing test. If passed, this test represents the ultimate achievement in computer science: a computer which thinks like a human.
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