Matt Bamberger
Matt Bamberger is CEO and founder of the AI research company
Intelligent Artifice which is
working on developing human-equivalent Artificial
Intelligence.
Matt authored
Mistaken Identity,
Let's build a brain!,
What I believe about the singularity,
Deconstructing AI,
Five Million PCs,
When to pull the trigger,
Pulling the trigger, part 2,
The Human Security Report,
The Doomsday Argument,
Infovore in a hurry,
Brain simulation,
Pattern Recognition, Part 1,
The Singularity is Near,
The Transparent Laboratory,
The rapture for nerds,
An argument against immortality,
Further thoughts on immortality, and
Moore's Law of Mad Science.
Read the
full list of his articles!
Matt was
with
Valve Software from 2001 to 2006. He
was the development manager for the
Steam team. Steam's a massive (1 million peak simultaneous users,
2.5 million unique users per month) online gaming service that allows
users to buy and update games, as well as providing a host of other
services such as in-game instant messaging and cheat prevention.
Before working on Steam, he worked as a contractor developing systems
for preventing cheating and piracy in our online games. He created the
original
Valve Anti-Cheat system (VAC).
He worked at Microsoft from 1988 to 2000 where he was a Software
Design Engineer, Development lead, and Development manager.
After leaving Microsoft, he briefly experimented with being retired. He
wasn't
very good at it.
Matt
studied physics at the University of Chicago from 1984 to 1988.
Much of his time at UC was spent in the astronomy department,
where he wrote software for the Local InterStellar Medium project, as
well as doing some research of his own on 21 cm hydrogen
emissions.