Roland Pihlakas
@ Independent researcher
Short:
I studied psychology, later worked on modelling of natural intelligence, and then on AI safety. Have always cared about the environmental issues. I work as a software developer, mainly having built AI and ML software. I tend to have many ideas and like interdisciplinary research. My AI safety related blog can be found here: https://medium.com/threelaws/ My CV: https://bit.ly/rp_ea_2018
Longer:
I hold an MSc in psychology. I work as an AI software engineer specialising in combinatorial optimisation, machine learning, graph search, natural language processing, data compression. I have been researching and working on multi-objective value problems for almost 20 years, have followed discussions on AI Safety since 2006 and have participated more actively since about 2017. My thesis topic was in cognitive psychology, about computational modelling of innate learning and planning mechanisms, which eventually form a foundation for culturally acquired language-based thought processes. With collaborators I have published a research paper about utility functions for risk-averse multi-objective decision making, which are relevant for balancing the plurality of human values. Later, with support from Foresight Institute’s grant in autumn 2023 - spring 2024 I created a suite of biologically inspired multi-objective multi-agent AI safety benchmarks.
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Who are you?
Roland Pihlakas, from Estonia. I studied psychology, worked on modelling of natural intelligence, and then on AI safety. Have always cared about environmental issues. I work as a software developer, mainly having built AI and ML software. I tend to have many ideas and like interdisciplinary research. My AI safety related blog can be found here: https://medium.com/threelaws/
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Testing EA timezone by comment timestamp. Current UTC time = 20:05.
Result: looks like EA is using UTC time since comment timestamp is same as UTC time.