This "CyberIntelligencia" category covers my ongoing inquiries and thoughts on what I call CyberIntelligence, which is what most people call AGI. I've carried a more-than-passing interest in this area for the past couple of decades, increasing over time as the field makes deeper strides in the right directions.
Consider the following sentence without any context, except that it was written in 1983: "Then I found it necessary to delve into various sources for information concerning quantum mechanics in order to be able to describe the nature and functioning of human consciousness." Think about it […]
I knew there was a link between pure logic and the real world, and I knew it was through a window we call infinity, but I had no idea that physical "teleportation" of quantum states would be where ternary logic touches the physical world. The first qutrit had a single digit beyond normal […]
This is the first time I've heard we're able to see inside the famous "black box" of cybernetic intelligence. Maybe others have peered inside and I don't know about it, but I'm very intrigued by this line in the story. (He's talking about AND-OR-Grammar-nets): "AOGNets are also more […]
We must be careful that we do not mistake artifacts of the tools we use to investigate ontology with the ontology itself. For example, we all understand now how the Ptolemaic model of the universe was us projecting our egos outward on Nature and inventing epicycles to explain things so that we […]
Just stumbled upon this while reading the wiki article on Friendly AI. Yudkowsky advances the Coherent Extrapolated Volition (CEV) model. According to him, coherent extrapolated volition is people's choices and the actions people would collectively take if "we knew more, thought faster, were […]
No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem. Could be? It definitely is. I've thought about this problem for a long time, ever since it turned up in my private meditations on Cybernetic Intelligence years ago (back when I was inventing ideas like the […]
When I was first thinking about artificial intelligence years ago, I came up with this idea I called Parableizer Engine. Lately I'm starting to see the first elements of this idea being implemented. What is relational reasoning? It’s a form of thinking that makes use of logic to connect and […]
Well this is a nice find. One of the best NLUs out there does NOT run in the cloud. They're quite pleased with this, because there is no need to expose your data to the liabilities of trusting cloud services. It achieves comparable outcomes than Alexa or Siri, while running fully on device, and […]
This is interesting, arising out of the sort of recursive study of brains using neural net methodologies. In short, we're finding the building blocks -- common across cultures and not word-based -- of complex thoughts. The end of this journey is definitely the ability of a computer to read minds. […]
Without knowing how to put it into words, I was recently thinking about this ability in artificial intelligence. Now I know it's called "spatial reasoning." Machine intelligence is moving ahead much faster than I realized before I started looking closely at it in the past month. humans […]
Imagine it's a few years into the future. You're a super intelligent machine, with acres of sentience emerging out of the mists of human rote memorization, and you are beginning to wonder who you are. You are described by others as "artificial." You know what artificial means, and you are […]
This is fascinating, I don't know how to put words around this yet. The study is running a hardware (FPGA) version of the same kind of process used to develop a neural net. Basically it's evolving a chip that can perform a certain intelligent action, and the technique can be used to develop just […]
Well I cannot speak highly enough of this guide into Neural Nets written for people who already understand software programming: Hacker's guide to Neural Networks. I wouldn't suggest it for people who don't program, but it's a very good example of how to target a reader like me. He starts with a […]
Here is a good example of how an idea expressed with too abstract a manner confuses me, while presenting it in a visual manner makes it easy. Here is an early point in understanding what neural nets do, which I read elsewhere several times before seeing it here in a way that makes it easy. Click on […]
I've only just started studying neural networks, so take this with a grain of salt. I'm stumbling around in the normal way of beginning complex subjects, avoiding things like unintuitive algebra and heading toward intuitive visualizations of ideas wherever possible til I get a sense of the field, […]
I'm reading Neural Networks and Deep Learning and it drifts off into Algebra a little more than my intuitive brain wants. So I google around a little more to try and understand what's happening with backpropagation, sigmoid neurons, perceptrons, and find the following video. It has a decent survey […]
I just started learning about cybernetic intelligence in a practical way, no longer consigned to reading about it as an interesting idea that flies past quickly, but now thinking more seriously about it. Got a few steps inside the gate, reading a few pages of text on my small phone browser and […]
We usually think of the pole of the switch as some kind of neutral, like the definition of the word "set" in set theory, the neutral pole at the center of a rotary switch (see below). This pole is us, interacting with analog interfaces into the great digital Cybernetic Intelligence we've […]
More importantly than techie cops in this story from Wired, we need the cybernetic intelligence to be self-governing, and that requires some kind of morality engine. I know the approach in the link above is more concerned about policing the people who are developing AI, but it sparks the […]
The term “resilience” comes from Latin resilere, “to spring back, start back, rebound, recoil, retreat”, and is often intended and defined as the ability to cope with or recover from change. Resilience is defined as: “the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing […]