[ExI] Anders interviewed on Australia's Late Night Live about AI

[Anders Sandberg]

On 16/07/2012 00:46, Emlyn wrote:
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> I think anyone can listen/download the podcast.
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> http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/11th-july-2012/4112990
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> Lovely surprise Anders, and a fun interview to listen to.
>

Thanks! It was a very fun interview. If you scour Australian media 
carefully you will notice I had a busy week - I gave five interviews in 
total. The same evening I was also around on The Drum newsshow where I 
defended one of my papers on love enhancement and talked a bit of 
cryonics. The weirdest moment was after the radio show as I was on my 
way back down the elevator in the ABC building and noticed a small TV in 
the wall showing me in the *live* news show. It took me a moment to 
realize that it was a re-run and I hadn't doubled or time travelled (sigh).

Overall, the RSS 2012 conference I attended was very good. The papers 
can be seen here
http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss08/
My favorite in the "gosh" category is of course the rocket-propelled 
robotic insects,
http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss08/p24.html
and the nicest theoretical paper (both in my opinion and the award 
committee) was the one about learning safe control
http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss08/p11.html
but my real favorite paper is the one about learning routes using 
*extremely* low resolution imagery
http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss08/p38.html
- in principle most of the world's road network could fit on a hard 
drive (but not in practice).

Of course, none of these robots are likely to have a hard takeoff... 
except the rocket insects of course.

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University