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| - Interview with Shane Legg by Jonathan Despres. Go to the Interviews. My degrees cover mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science and artificial intelligence. I've had the good fortune to be able to work with a range of significant people in artificial intelligence and related topics over the last 15 years. At the moment I'm interested in the effect of cognitive bias in financial markets, algorithms for optimal temporal difference learning, advanced types of artificial neural network architectures for high dimensional temporal prediction and control, and also issues surrounding the safety of advanced artificial intelligence. To follow my dreams and lead an interesting and enjoyable life. In the last 5 years we have really started to make good progress on getting recurrent artificial neural networks to perform. I think this is an area ripe for a revolution, and I hope to be a part of it. I am interested in the application of machine learning to problems in finance, so I might well find myself involved with that. I would like to make a significant contribution to AI safety, however this is a very tricky problem so unfortunately I'm not expecting much. I don't know. Perhaps by 2035? AI is now where the internet was in 1988. Demand for machine learning skills is quite strong in specialist applications (search companies like Google, hedge funds and bio-informatics) and is growing every year. I expect this to become noticeable in the mainstream around the middle of the next decade. I expect a boom in AI around 2020 followed by a decade of rapid progress, possibly after a market correction. Human level AI will be passed in the mid 2020's, though many people won't accept that this has happened. After this point the risks associated with advanced AI will start to become practically important. Not sure. I worked for 2.5 years as a database programmer after my Master's degree. I learned that a regular job in a regular office doing regular things was totally and absolutely not for me. I don't know. No. Or more accurately, I think it's unlikely but not completely impossible. Don't know much about extropians. Invent a powerful AGI and have it make the world a much better place. Mathematics. I don't know about a "singularity", but I do expect things to get really crazy at some point after human level AGI has been created. That is, some time from 2025 to 2040. Machines can already surpass humans, and all other animals, in countless ways. If the "boy" had died when he hit the water it would have been an ok film. Instead we had to endure a ridiculous sugar frosted Hollywood ending. I have no interest in such things as I don't think they will be of any consequence compared to super intelligent machines. A machine that can achieve a wide range of goals in a wide range of environments. For a more exact definition, indeed a formal mathematical definition, see my thesis: The same reason that intelligence is useful. The Piano. Atheist. Half way between a libertarian and a centreist.
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