Month: September 2022

PREDICTIONS from the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) follow. ( Stuart Russell, Advisor). https://lnkd.in/dWsky-W View in LinkedIn

AMPLIFIED CONSEQUENCES. “As perception, inference, and planning algorithms improve, AI systems will be trusted with increasingly complex and long-term decision-making. Small errors will then have larger consequences.” https://lnkd.in/dWsky-W View in LinkedIn

THE RISK. Systems that end up with poor models of their environment can do significant harm. View in LinkedIn

VIGILANCE REQUIRED. “There are fewer obvious constraints on the harm a system with poorly specified goals might do. In particular, an autonomous system that learns about human goals, but is not correctly designed to align its own goals to its best model of human goals, could cause catastrophic harm in the absence of adequate checks.” https://lnkd.in/dWsky-W View in LinkedIn

JUAN ENRIQUEZ, founding director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project; chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy; managing director of Excel Venture Management; on the boards of Cabot Corporation, The Harvard Medical School Genetics Advisory Council, The Chairman’s International Council of the America’s Society, the Visiting Committee of Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center, Tuft University’s EPIIC, and Harvard Business School’s PAPSAC; CEO of Mexico City’s Urban Development Corporation; Coordinator General of Economic Policy and Chief of Staff for Mexico’s Secretary of State. Graduate of Harvard.” https://lnkd.in/duKwtHk View in LinkedIn

"THE NEW HUMAN SPECIES is one that begins to engineer the evolution of viruses, plants, animals, and itself. As we do that, Darwin’s rules get bent, and sometimes even broken. By taking direct and deliberate control over our evolution, we are living in a world where we are modifying stuff according to our desires. . . . Eventually, we get to the point where evolution is guided by what we’re engineering. That’s a big deal.” (Juan Enriquez). https://lnkd.in/dKSv-YU View in LinkedIn

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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE contemplates communication and cooperation among bacteria. Often dismissed as simple organisms, bacteria are still poorly appreciated. One trait common to every single life form is the ability to communicate, within its own species and with other species, in cases of collaboration, or at least be able to eavesdrop on the chatter of other species such as prey. Communication as a part of the definition of life has so far not made the list, but should be added. View in LinkedIn

SUM IS GREATER THAN ITS PARTS. “Swarm intelligence, now-a-days has become a research focus which studies the collective behavior existing among the natural species which lives in group. Bacteria Foraging Optimization (BFO) is an optimization algorithm based on the social intelligence behavior of E.coli bacteria.” https://lnkd.in/d7qV-kS View in LinkedIn

TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM SOLVED using bacterial foraging algorithm. “Travelling salesman problem (TSP) is one of the most intensively studied problems in computational mathematics. It is a standard test bed for new algorithmic ideas. The proposed work is computation of chemotaxis, where a bacterium takes steps over the foraging landscape in order to reach the regions with high-nutrient content. If a bacterium does not encounter a city within the minimum distance constraint in its first step, then it searches for another city by taking another step and so on.“ https://lnkd.in/d5PS8VA View in LinkedIn