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STATE OF AI TODAY by Gary Marcus (Geometric Intelligence Inc). Why has AI been stuck after 50 years of trying and is still "just 20 years away"? It is possibly using the wrong paradigm. Marcus believes that the clue is the way that children learn, intuitively, simply. Watch this space. " "The current state of AI and Deep Learning: A reply to Yoshua Bengio by Gary Marcus View in LinkedIn

LITMUS TEST. “The real question is whether the technology developed there can be taken out of the game world and into the real world. IBM has struggled to make compelling products out of DeepBlue (the chess champion) and Watson (the Jeopardy champion). Part of the reason for that is that the real world is fundamentally different from the game world.” https://lnkd.in/d7SrMXW View in LinkedIn

HYBRID AI. “AlphaGo isn’t a pure neural net at all — it’s a hybrid, melding deep reinforcement learning with one of the foundational techniques of classical AI — tree-search, invented by Minsky’s colleague Claude Shannon a few years before neural networks were ever invented.” https://lnkd.in/d7SrMXW View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends devoted to the mysterious gynoecium of flowering plants, and how the evolution of the flower impacted planet Earth. It is also an Exemplar of the power of gene duplication events that occurred in flowering plants, whose spare genes could be repurposed for new uses. 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

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

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

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

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

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