New episode! The popular media confuses Artificial Intelligence and Artificial General Intelligence. All the progress is in the first while all the interest is in…
Category: Computation
Dennis Hackethal has a post called “Two Guesses About Creativity” which started out with the following lines: The problem, in a nutshell, is this: creativity…
In a past post, I argued that our best current theory on animal qualia was that animals did feel qualia. In a later post, I…
Temple Grandin, in her book Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior, argues that her autism is a condition that…
In three previous posts (here, here, and here) we talked about animal learning, particularly classical conditioning. However, some animals display complex abilities to learn that…
A friend once needed cheering up because she felt all the magic in the world was dying. I told her about this quote from Fredrick…
Ideas and Implications In his 1990 talk “The Myth of the Standpoint” Karl Popper said: …the correct method of critical discussion is: What are the…
In this post, I continue to follow chapter by chapter from Category Theory for Programmers By Bartosz Milewski, this time looking at Chapter 3: Categories…
Is the study of Artificial General Intelligence identical to the study of consciousness? The word “consciousness” is bantered about as if it’s a specific thing.…
“Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data,” (link) by Michael Laskin, et al introduces the idea of using data augmentation in Reinforcement Learning. Data augmentation is already…