Month: September 2022

INSCRUTABLE METHOD. “And, the commentators add, the machine’s self-taught methods in the early and later parts of the game confirm the lore that grandmasters have accumulated over centuries of play: “But some of its middle-game judgements are truly mysterious.” https://spectrum-ieee-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/alphago-zero-goes-from-blank-slate-to-grandmaster-in-three-dayswithout-any-help-at-all.amp.html View in LinkedIn

NEW THINKING. “The DeepMind researchers discovered another bit of weirdness. When they had a neural network train itself to predict the moves of expert players, it did very well, though it took a bit longer to reach the standard of a system trained with human supervision. However, the self-trained network played better overall, suggesting “that AlphaGo Zero may be learning a strategy that is qualitatively different to human play.” https://spectrum-ieee-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/alphago-zero-goes-from-blank-slate-to-grandmaster-in-three-dayswithout-any-help-at-all.amp.html View in LinkedIn

SPECIATION. “Toward the end of Colossus: The Forbin Project, the computer says, “What I am began in Man's mind, but I have progressed further than Man.” https://lnkd.in/dgtRuSu View in LinkedIn

PREBIOSIS. “Take all of these items together—machines that think for themselves, a world where everything is connected, a brain to control it, sensors to monitor it, the ability to build without help of humans and factories to do it in—and one can envision a future where the machines take over. The scary part? All of these technologies exist in some form or another today.” http://readwrite.com/2013/11/07/singularity-ai-human-extinction View in LinkedIn

THE INTUITION. “There's a saying among futurists that a human-equivalent artificial intelligence will be our last invention. After that, AIs will be capable of designing virtually anything on their own — including themselves. Here's how a recursively self-improving AI could transform itself into a superintelligent machine.” http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-artificial-superintelligence-will-give-birth-to-its-1609547174 View in LinkedIn

THE QUESTION. “Can we build computers that are intelligent and alive? This question has been on the minds of computer scientists since the dawn of the computer age and remains a most compelling line of inquiry.” https://lnkd.in/d9cvzSB View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS. “When it comes to understanding the potential for artificial intelligence, it's critical to understand that an AI might eventually be able to modify itself, and that these modifications could allow it to increase its intelligence extremely fast.” http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-artificial-superintelligence-will-give-birth-to-its-1609547174 View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF SOFTWARE CODE. "The digital organism could acquire the best survival strategy and could optimize itself in an environment where available energy and space are limited." Simply semantic, or something more profound? https://lnkd.in/dNEAYvA View in LinkedIn

FIRST INDIGENOUS SPECIES. “The precursors of autonomous agents are bots: the first indigenous species of cyberspace'. Bots are to software what robots are to hardware; algorithms rather than animated machines governed by rules of behavior." https://lnkd.in/dF3y7XC View in LinkedIn

RECURSIVE ACCELERATION. “Once sophisticated enough, an AI will be able to engage in what's called "recursive self-improvement." As an AI becomes smarter and more capable, it will subsequently become better at the task of developing its internal cognitive functions. In turn, these modifications will kickstart a cascading series of improvements, each one making the AI smarter at the task of improving itself. It's an advantage that we biological humans simply don't have.” http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-artificial-superintelligence-will-give-birth-to-its-1609547174 View in LinkedIn