There are many definitions of intelligence and this is something I think about often, especially from the point of view of artificial intelligence. From the point of view of society, I love this quote from Naval Ravikant: “The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life.” From this… Continue reading The only real test of intelligence is if you get what you want out of life
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On Richard Feynman and your core questions
Richard Feynman famously wrote: “You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every… Continue reading On Richard Feynman and your core questions
Variables in grounded language learning
I keep reading grounded language learning papers trying to figure out what is the minimal ingredient to achieve a grounded representation in computers. One theme I keep seeing and coming back to is that while everything is grounded, compositionality may need more abstract thinking. It seems like there definitely must be some recursive computation or… Continue reading Variables in grounded language learning
What is grounded language learning
“An unknown, but potentially large, fraction of animal and human intelligence is a direct consequence of the perceptual and physical richness of our environment, and is unlikely to arise without it”. – John Locke (1632-1704) Powerful state of the art machine learning systems such as word2vec and GPT-3 are powerful machine learning models that seem to… Continue reading What is grounded language learning
AGI research reflection questions
Here are the main questions ask myself often to reflect on and measure how I am doing with my AGI research. Am I following my AGI research MO? What papers were most interesting? Any new learnings? Any new thoughts ? Do I need to update any of my mind maps? Do I need to update… Continue reading AGI research reflection questions
AGI Research MO
Sometimes I will start reading a paper and go down a rabbit hole following lots of different papers. There is so many papers to read and so many directions to go towards and sometimes I end up getting overwhelmed and frustrated because there is too much information and it all seems too hard. So sometimes… Continue reading AGI Research MO
Understanding Cyc, the AI database
Cyc is a project I have never personally used, it was created before my time, but its referenced often in AI history and its a project that is still going. It is a knowledge base with the goal of “codifying, in machine-usable form, the millions of pieces of knowledge that compose human common sense”. According… Continue reading Understanding Cyc, the AI database
Notes on “A language of thought for the mental representation of geometric shapes”
I’m going to try to write notes on the papers I read in this blog as well. Here is my first one. Link to paper: https://psyarxiv.com/28mg4 Authors: Mathias Sablé-Meyer, Kevin Ellis, Joshua Tenenbaum, Stanislas Dehaene Both Joshua Tenenbaum and Stanislas Dehaene are 2 of my favorite researchers, so I had to read this joint paper… Continue reading Notes on “A language of thought for the mental representation of geometric shapes”
Examining concepts through different filters
I think the human mind an autonomous interlinked model building database of the world. I define models and concepts to be the same thing. One important aspect of this system that has been nagging me is the idea that the human mind can examine ideas/models/concepts from different filters. In my article about the mind as… Continue reading Examining concepts through different filters
Ideas for experiments to run on a chicken farm
If I had an animal city, I’d probably start with chickens. Some initial questions I might ask: does a chicken do path finding? can a chicken be trained to collect eggs and move them to a specific location? can a chicken be trained to clean itself? could chickens be trained to cleanup their home? how… Continue reading Ideas for experiments to run on a chicken farm