What Is The Goal of Building AIs? Published Sat, Jul 10, 2021 You’d think with the possibility of the Singularity wiping out humans, we’d be more careful and try not to advance so fast. There is clearly a strong emphasis of AI in pop culture, government, scientific research, and many other facets of life. Where does this fascination with AI come from? I want try to explain our obsession with…
What Exactly is The Singularity The technological Singularity (often called the singularity for short) is a term that signifies a potential future where artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence. After that point in time, civilization would radically change into a future that no human could comprehend. The idea of the singularity was first written about around 1950 by John von Neumann ,…
On Grounded Language Learning and Simulation Published Tue, Dec 22, 2020 Language seems to be the pinnacle of intelligence. While many animals can communicate, none can do it at the richness or level of complexity as humans. So its not surprising that we have studied language in so much detail trying to understand how language works and what makes human unique in their use of language. There has…
Deep Reinforcement Learning is a waste of time Published Mon, Dec 30, 2019 Its the end of 2019 and I wanted to see how AI progress has been doing. Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) in particular has been hyped as the next evolutionary step towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), computer algorithms that can learn to do anything like humans in a general way. Researchers have been working…
offline manifesto - offline in an online first world I manage projects with lots of people involved, write software, constantly communicating , contemplate, and generally need to be online quiet frequently. Over the years, I’ve noticed I’ve had productivity swings based on several factors, one of the main ones being whether I was online or not. With the constant email notifications, slack…
Why you should learn graphics programming I’ve been programming in a lot of different areas for over 15 years now: websites, system admin/devops, database applications, backend worker processes, machine learning pipelines, marketing automation tools, and more. I would dabble with graphical programming environments like Processing and shaders occasionally to draw with a computer, but never really…
My experience with Processing I have seen and dabbled with Processing a couple times over the past few years, but it wasn’t until I was in a computational art program that I spent real time with it. Over the past few months I tried to write a new “sketch”, a program in Processing terms, every day to play with a different aspect of graphical programming like shaders, color modes, 2D motion, arduino…
the machine learning challenge at apple if you want a machine learning challenge, go work at apple Apple has recently joined the machine learning and deep learning craze. They are hiring at an accelerated pace and competing to hire form the same talent pool as all the other Silicon Valley companies. They have a unique set of challenges compared to companies like google. Apple has championed…
neuroscience based startups 04 September 2015 I wanted to see what kind of neuroscience based startups are being worked on these days. I looked at all the companies on angel list ( a fundraising platforms for startups) that were tagged as neuroscience. Angel list has about ~600,000 companies and 106 of them are tagged under neuroscience. I looked at all the neuroscience tagged companies. Out of…
Helen Keller and somatic intelligence 29 August 2015 who is helen keller Hellen Keller was a woman born in 1880. At the age of 18 months she lost her hearing and vision rendering her blind and deaf for the rest of her life. Despite that, she was still able to be an intelligent and productive member of society. She interacted through the world with touch, taste, and smell. I’ve had a deep interest…