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When we consider the future of AI, we need to think about the goals. That’s what
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016986.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…, might work—an artificial neural network. They saw that their brainlike model would do computations in the same way as Turing Machines. From their work, it emerged that we could make brainlike neural networks that would act as general computers. And in fact, the practical work d...

“URGENT!” URGENT!” the cc’d copy of an email screamed, one of a dozen emails that
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016363.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…on’s new City Hall. We were joined by Venki Ramakrishnan, Jaan Tallinn, and Andrew Blake, research director of The Alan Turing Institute. The event was consistent with HUO’s mission of bringing together art and science: “The curator is no longer understood simply as the person wh...

138 7 A Formal Model of Intelligent Agents
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013054.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…nd Hutter’s definition because one may bias the distribution of environments within the latter by considering different Turing machines underlying the Kolmogorov complexity. However this is not a general equivalence because the Solomonoff-Levin measure intrinsically HOUSE_OVERSI...

Caroline A. Jones’ interest in modern and contemporary art is enriched by a willingness
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016393.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ring the cultural rather than engineering uptake of this idea. She begins with primary readings by Wiener, Shannon, and Turing and then pivots from the scientists and engineers to the work and ideas of artists, feminists, postmodern theorists. Her goal: to come up with a new cent...

Goe08. Ben Goertzel. A pragmatic path toward endowing virtually-embodied ais with human-level lin
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013262.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ybernetic model of the emerging net- work soctety. Social Evolution and History 6-1, 2007. HF95. P. Hayes and K. Ford. Turing test considered harmful. [/CAI-14, 1995. HGO8. David Hart and Ben Goertzel. Opencog: A software framework for integrative artificial general intelligen...

Ede93. Gerald Edelman. Neural darwinism: Selection and reentrant signaling in higher brain function
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013261.txt Feb 1, 2012 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…nt. Int. Conf. on Integrated Design and Process Technology, 2006. Fre90. R. French. Subcognition and the limits of the turing test’. Mind, 1990. Fre95. Walter Freeman. Societies of Brains. Erlbaum, 1995. FT02. G. Fauconnier and M. Turner. The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending...

agent that perceives, and acts in order to maximize, its expected utility. Subfields such as
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016250.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…s dead. According to Omohundro’s argument, a superintelligent machine that has an off-switch—which some, including Alan Turing himself, in a 1951 talk on BBC Radio 3, have seen as our potential salvation—will take steps to disable the switch in some way.! Thus we may face the pro...

have explained a number famous theorems in this book along with
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016091.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…r famous theorems in this book along with [= ideas of my own. Here is a list of the most notable. 1. Mind over Computer Turing Test — How to tell whether a computer is intelligent, even though we cannot agree on a definition of intelligence. Flynn Effect — The observation that hu...

352 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016042.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… every theory we could ever discover within it. (There would be no arbitrary problems.) This argument neatly sidesteps Turing’s theorem by specifying there is no such thing as an arbitrary problem - a random problem picked from the infinite set of problems. At the same time, it...

Steven Pinker, a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016297.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…aude Shannon and Warren Weaver for explaining knowledge and communication in terms of information. It might credit Alan Turing and John von Neumann for explaining intelligence and reasoning in terms of computation. And it ought to give Wiener credit for explaining the hitherto my...

enough time and unlimited visual aids, a human could express a preference (or
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016254.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…rmulate and solve the off-switch problem—that is, the problem of how to prevent a robot from disabling its off-switch. (Turing may rest easier.) A robot that’s uncertain about human preferences actually benefits from being switched off, because it understands that the human will...

achievement, like taking a piece of that serenity and putting on paper for
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021190.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ecame further enveloped in the thick plot. Leaving on the TV and the lights on that night, I spent my night tossing and turing, peeking through the small open crevices of the comforter, half expecting to see an alien being in my bedroom. Living through the night was a relief and...

294 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015984.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…periment and measure the quality of understanding communicated between the parties. If we believe our brains are super-Turing, then considering there might be some similar effects involved in human communication is not unreasonable, perhaps quantum effects play a role in communi...

Throughout his career, whether studying language, advocating a realistic biology of
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016296.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… “Just as Darwin made it possible for a thoughtful observer of the natural world to do without creationism, ” he says, “Turing and others made it possible for a thoughtful observer of the cognitive world to do without spiritualism. ” In the debate about AI risk, he argues agains...

298 16 AGI Preschool
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013214.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…e the next steps? There is still a long way to go, from preschool to an AGI system that is capable of, say, passing the Turing Test or serving as an effective artificial scientist. Our suggestion is to extend the school metaphor further, and make use of existing curricula for hi...