I’m Alex and I’m studying computer vision at Oxford. Essentially we’re trying to build AI that understands the visual world. We use lots of machine learning, probabilistic inference, and even a bit of signal processing. I arrived here through the Future of Humanity Institute website, which I found after listening to Nick Bostrom’s TED talk. I’ve been lurking for a few weeks now but I thought I should finally introduce myself.
I find the rationalist discussion on LW interesting both on a personal interest level, and in relation to my work. I would like to get some discussion going on the relationship between some of the concrete tools and techniques we use in AI and the more abstract models of rationality being discussed here. Out of interest, how many people here have some kind of computer science background?
Hi Alex, welcome to LessWrong. You can find some info about the people here in the survey results post. Quite a lot are with CS background, and some grok machine learning.
Out of interest, how many people here have some kind of computer science background?
Quite a few if not most, it seems. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/fk/survey_results/ - the summary there doesn’t mention the educational background, but looking through the actual spreadsheet, lots of people have listed a “computing” background.
Hi,
I’m Alex and I’m studying computer vision at Oxford. Essentially we’re trying to build AI that understands the visual world. We use lots of machine learning, probabilistic inference, and even a bit of signal processing. I arrived here through the Future of Humanity Institute website, which I found after listening to Nick Bostrom’s TED talk. I’ve been lurking for a few weeks now but I thought I should finally introduce myself.
I find the rationalist discussion on LW interesting both on a personal interest level, and in relation to my work. I would like to get some discussion going on the relationship between some of the concrete tools and techniques we use in AI and the more abstract models of rationality being discussed here. Out of interest, how many people here have some kind of computer science background?
Hi Alex, welcome to LessWrong. You can find some info about the people here in the survey results post. Quite a lot are with CS background, and some grok machine learning.
Quite a few if not most, it seems. See http://lesswrong.com/lw/fk/survey_results/ - the summary there doesn’t mention the educational background, but looking through the actual spreadsheet, lots of people have listed a “computing” background.