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Language as General Intelligence
Artifical General Intelligence

Language as General Intelligence

Posted on June 10, 2022June 9, 2022 by Dan Gish

Until recently I agreed with David Deutsch‘s view that we can’t program an AGI until we understand the nature of human intelligence & creativity. But I’m…

ToA Episode 44: Clarifying David Deutsch’s Views of “Knowledge”
Critical Rationalism

ToA Episode 44: Clarifying David Deutsch’s Views of “Knowledge”

Posted on June 3, 2022June 3, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In this episode, Bruce had a chance to talk to David Deutsch and ask him questions about his views of knowledge to clarify if he…

ToA Episode 43: Deep Reinforcement Learning
Critical Rationalism

ToA Episode 43: Deep Reinforcement Learning

Posted on April 22, 2022April 22, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In this video upload available on Spotify (we’ll try this once and see how it’s received), we revisit Reinforcement Learning (from way back in episode…

Episode 39: Byrne’s Methodology for Discovering Animal Insight (part 3)
Artificial Intelligence

Episode 39: Byrne’s Methodology for Discovering Animal Insight (part 3)

Posted on January 25, 2022February 15, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In episode 39, Richard Byrne has spent his whole career trying to determine when animals learned to ‘think.’ We discuss Richard Byrne’s methodology for determining…

Episode 38: Animal Learning and Popper’s Epistemology (part 2)
Artifical General Intelligence

Episode 38: Animal Learning and Popper’s Epistemology (part 2)

Posted on January 4, 2022February 15, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

In episode 38, Karl Popper has a radical theory of ‘dualistic evolution’ where behavior had to evolve first before physical evolutionary changes could be taken…

Theory of Anything 37: Animal Intelligence and Knowledge Creation (part 1)
Artificial Intelligence

Theory of Anything 37: Animal Intelligence and Knowledge Creation (part 1)

Posted on December 14, 2021February 15, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

How intelligent are animals? In this episode, we introduce our series on animal intelligence rooted primarily in the research of Richard Byrne. Richard Byrne (mentioned…

Why Induction *Can* be the Basis for Conjecture (Sort of) – Part 2
Critical Rationalism

Why Induction *Can* be the Basis for Conjecture (Sort of) – Part 2

Posted on November 11, 2021January 3, 2022 by Bruce Nielson

I previously posted about Deutsch’s argument to Eli Tyre about why induction can’t be the basis for conjecture. And I agreed with that argument. But,…

AGI and The Need to Find Regularities
Artifical General Intelligence

AGI and The Need to Find Regularities

Posted on November 9, 2021August 7, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Popper wrote about the need to discover regularities: It was first in animals and children, but later also in adults, that I observered the immensely…

Why Induction Can’t be the Basis for Conjecture (according to Deutsch) – Part 1
Artificial Intelligence

Why Induction Can’t be the Basis for Conjecture (according to Deutsch) – Part 1

Posted on November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

Deutsch gives a great concise answer to the question of why conjectures are not rooted in induction. (See video here.) The Setup: Eli Tyre starts…

Theory of Anything Podcast 34: Alpha Go and Creativity
Computation

Theory of Anything Podcast 34: Alpha Go and Creativity

Posted on November 2, 2021November 1, 2021 by Bruce Nielson

In this episode, we review Alpha Go: The Movie. This is an amazing documentary worth watching before we spoil it for you in this review.…

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