The AGI Landscape
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The AGI Landscape is going to push the boundary of artificial general intelligence.
: summary of general safety research in agi
: consider the problem of obtaining an out-of-sample extension for the adjacency spectral embedding, a procedure for embedding the vertices of a graph into Euclidean space.
: introduces a general definition of side effects, based on relative reachability of states compared to a default state, that avoids these undesirable incentives.
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P. Billingsley Probability and Measure (3rd Edition). Chapters 1-30 contain a more careful and detailed treatment of some of the topics of this semester, in particular the measure-theory background. Recommended for students who have not done measure theory.
There are many other books at roughly the same ``first year graduate" level. Here are my personal comments on some.
R. Durrett .
R. Leadbetter et al is a new book giving a careful treatment of the measure-theory background.
D. Khoshnevisan is a well-written concise account of the key topics in 205AB.
R. Bhattacharya and E. C. Waymire is another well-written account, mostly on the 205A topics.
K.L. Chung covers many of the topics of 205A: more leisurely than Durrett and more focused than Billingsley.
D. Williams has a uniquely enthusiastic style; concise treatment emphasizes usefulness of martingales.
Y.S. Chow and H. Teicher. Uninspired exposition, but has useful variations on technical topics such as inequalities for sums and for martingales.
R.M. Dudley. Best account of the functional analysis and metric space background relevant for research in theoretical probability.
B. Fristedt and L. Gray. 700 pages allow coverage of broad range of topics in probability and stochastic processes.
L. Breiman. Classical; concise and broad coverage.
O. Kallenberg . Quoting an amazon.com reviewer: ``.... a compendium of all the relevant results of probability ..... similar in breadth and depth to Loeve's classical text of the mid 70's. It is not suited as a textbook, as it lacks the many examples that are needed to absorb the theory at a first pass. It works best as a reference book or a "second pass" textbook."
John B. Walsh . New in 2012. Looks very nice -- concise treatment with quite challenging exercises developing part of theory.
George Roussas . Recent treatment of classical content.
Santosh Venkatesh . Unique new book, intertwining a broad range of undergraduate and graduate-level topics for an applied audience.
I. Florescu . Very clearly written, and with 550 pages gives a broad coverage of topics including intro to SDEs.
Jim Pitman has his linked to the Durrett text; these notes cover more ground than my course will! Also some for the Stanford courses equivalent to our 205AB.
The Books: , by Professor David Aldous from UC Berkeley.