Work
- ResearcherApril 2016 to present
- Research AssistantMay 1, 2015 to August 31, 2015Helsinki, FinlandWorked on LDA topic models and Python backend coding for a recommendation system suggesting potential thesis supervisors to students and allowing students to look for interesting research topics.
- Software DeveloperSeptember 1, 2013 to August 31, 2014Helsinki, FinlandDesigned and implemented iOS e-learning materials to support the company's existing text books.
- Research AssociateMarch 2013 to April 2016Berkeley, California
- Research FellowAugust 2012 to March 2013Berkeley, CaliforniaWorked on a number of papers concerning the risks of advanced artificial intelligence and AI timeline forecasting; also wrote and managed the writing of several popular articles relating to the topic.
Main papers written during this period include "How We’re Predicting AI — or Failing to" (with Stuart Armstrong) and "Responses to Catastrophic AGI Risk — A Survey" (with Roman Yampolskiy).- Paper: "Responses to Catastrophic AGI Risk - a Survey"Summarizes and analyzes various responses to arguments suggesting suggest that artificial general intelligence (AGI) may eventually become a major risk.
- Paper: "How We’re Predicting AI - or Failing to"Paper published in "Beyond AI: Artificial Dreams" conference. Using a database using 95 AI predictions, concludes that expert predictions contradict each other considerably,
and are indistinguishable from non-expert predictions and past failed predictions.
- Research AssociateMay 2012 to August 2012
- Visiting FellowApril 2010 to July 2010Santa Clara, California
Education
- Class of 2011Cognitive ScienceComputer ScienceHelsinkiBachelor of Arts (Cognitive Science)
- Class of 2005Turku, Finland
Current City and Hometown
HelsinkiCurrent city
Turku, FinlandHometown
About Kaj
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Favorite Quotes
- If you never make mistakes, you're not trying enough new things.
We cannot choose what we feel in a situation, but we can choose what we do regardless of the feelings.
