Year: 2021

“The folks with the power are the anonymous engineers, tweaking algorithms without clear awareness of what the impact might be.”

From https://t.co/UyRo5cW8Ev

Back at the top of your feeds. https://t.co/MaEwPnUmz4

This is, so far, the most daring prediction in the book: an #AI designed after the Thousand Brains theory of intelligence, and therefore intelligent in the human sense (not as in today’s “artificial intelligence”), will be conscious. https://t.co/qqUXXFo9o9

If you think that the skirmish between two competing IT vendors on social media can become inelegant, you have never seen neuroscientists and philosophers argue about consciousness. That can get real ugly.

“String theory looks pretty much dead as a theory of everything. Which, if true, clears the field for non-string theories of everything.” https://t.co/L50IrbTnku https://t.co/A0iytiFXNb

.@JeffCHawkins recalls how Intel reacted when, in 1992, he suggested that the futur would be dominated by handheld devices.

I learned first-hand: it can take many years to be proven right. You should never feed on that desire. Other people’s validation would not be your driver. https://t.co/WDB34M6teO

I wonder how many #ML practitioners have read about @JeffCHawkins’ Thousand Brains theory. If you dream about AGI (and I met a few that do), or you just want to consider a contrarian way to design #AI, you should take a deeper look. https://t.co/4kGk9fkAmq

I wonder what @danieldennett thinks about @JeffCHawkins’s theory of the Thousand Brains. If thinking is a movement through a myriad of interconnected reference frames, what is consciousness? The overarching reference frame that connects all the others? Or still a bag of tricks?

Now intersect it with this new regulation:

China “will ban minors from playing videogames entirely between Monday and Thursday. On the other three days of the week, and on public holidays, they will be only permitted to play between 8pm and 9pm”

https://t.co/SIGrc9IUK9

The lack of dedicated #AI expertise at the LoB/BU level is one of the biggest constraints to innovation within an org. Cross-function, company-wide data science and ML engineering sounds great in theory. In practice, it severely impacts potential and speed.