Dr Peter Norvig is Director of Research at Google and (co-)author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach - the most used AI textbook worldwide. In this talk, given at Bay Area AI Meetup at TechShop in Menlo Park, CA in December 2008 he discusses recent directions in AI research at Google and elsewhere. In particular, he discusses the use of Non-Parametric Models in Google's award-sweeping natural language translation systems and recent adoption…

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Reductionism is an amazingly powerful strategy for leveraging the work of scientists and for disseminating the results in the form of re-usable models of structure and causality. But for some of the "remaining hard problem domains" such as Life (biology, psychology, ecology, etc), the World (world modeling, economies, sociology), Intelligence (understanding the brain, intelligence, and creating Artificial General Intelligences - AGI) and the problem…

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Reductionism - the idea that difficult problems should be attacked by dividing them into simpler problems - is one the most effective strategies in the hard sciences. The justification "The Whole equals the sum of its Parts" has been used for thousands of years. Physics and related sciences, and the support disciplines of mathematics and computer science are all permeated by this Reductionist stance, and for good reason: It has worked really well.…

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A ResearchCast about our work building biologically-inspired vision systems See the following links for more info: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000579 http://www.rowland.harvard.edu/rjf/cox Special thanks to Jarasa Kanok for script assistance, and Jonathan Jarvis (http://jonathanjarvis.com) for visual stylistic inspiration.

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David Nellessen from the Freiberg Software iGEM 2009 gave me a demo of their hot new google wave robot for synthetic biology, SynBioWave. To try the robot out, add SynBioWave@appspot.com to a googlewave. "Synthetic Biology, which aims at constructing whole new genomes, is pushed forward by many users and relies on the assembly of genetic elements to devices and later systems. The construction process needs to be transparent and even at final stages…

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