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Archive 2019FB14,000 Days Ago, Bill Gates Introduced the MS-DOS Operating System, 3,303 Days Ago Steve Jobs Introduced the iPad, and Today Alpha Industries Unveils the Digital Human with Students from the Faculty of Philosophy!
14,000 days ago, Bill Gates introduced the MS-DOS operating system, 3,303 days ago Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, and today Alpha Industries, together with students from the Faculty of Philosophy, has presented the digital human! Thanks to Dita M. for collaborating with me on this fun project.
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Archive 2019Meeting of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy Enthusiasts – the Digital Philosopher is Already at the Door!
The planned agenda includes lectures and a debate with students. It will be a unique opportunity to pose questions to many thinkers who are long gone. The concluding discussion should also be interesting…
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Archive 2019FBThe Meeting of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy Enthusiasts – Digital Philosophy – is Just Around the Corner!
The Meeting of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy Enthusiasts – Digital Philosophy – is just around the corner! The planned agenda includes lectures and a debate with students. It will be a unique opportunity to pose questions to many thinkers who are long gone. The concluding discussion should also be interesting.
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Archive 2019“True AI should understand the relationship between cause and effect,” says Judea Pearl, a pioneer in artificial intelligence.
Let’s teach machines to understand the question “Why?”. While in the 1980s we created programmes that primarily calculated probabilities (for example, Bayesian networks), this is no longer sufficient….
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Archive 2019FB"True AI should understand the relationship between cause and effect," says Judea Pearl…
"True AI should understand the relationship between cause and effect," says Judea Pearl, a pioneer in artificial intelligence. Let's teach machines to understand the question "Why?". While in the 1980s we created programmes that primarily calculated probabilities (such as Bayesian networks), this is no longer sufficient.
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Archive 2019Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
I attempted to create a simple 3-minute video where I introduce myself and briefly explain what I understand by artificial intelligence. Does it make sense to tackle more complex topics in this way?
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Archive 2019FBI Tried to Film a Simple 3-Minute Video Introducing Myself and Briefly Explaining What I Understand by Artificial Intelligence.
I tried to film a simple 3-minute video introducing myself and briefly explaining what I understand by artificial intelligence. Does it make sense to tackle more complex topics in this way?
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Archive 2019The Launch of 'Digital Philosophy' and Its First Tasks
The first session of 'Digital Philosophy' is behind us, and with it came a voluntary task: to take a look at Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy. I took it upon myself…
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Archive 2019FBThe First Hour of 'Digital Philosophy' is Behind Us
The first hour of 'Digital Philosophy' is behind us, and with it came a voluntary task: to take a look at Descartes' Meditation on First Philosophy. I approached this task in my own way and fed the artificial brain GPT-2, with over 355 million parameters, two books.
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Archive 2019Event: Digital Philosopher 2019
Come and see the presentations of results from the students of the Faculty of Philosophy. In two months, they must create a digital philosopher using artificial intelligence and pose the right questions to him…
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Archive 2019Yay! Open AI has released a large model (774M parameters)
Only the final, largest one is missing! It took me about 5 minutes to get it fully operational. I asked this model to complete this sentence: 'Alpha Industries,…'
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Archive 2019The New Ferret Brain from Open AI Has Given Us Room for Further Experiments!
And here it is! Open AI has released another slightly larger model, this time version 345M. So instead of the brain of a small bird with 117 million neurons…
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Archive 2019Artificial Intelligence and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 'What is the fundamental question of Life, the Universe, and everything?'
What happens when we let artificial intelligence process the pentalogy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by English writer Douglas Adams and ask it: 'What...
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Archive 2019Nietzsche Responded with AI to the Question: 'What is the Meaning of Human Life?'
Yesterday, I conducted a small experiment. I took my favourite model from OpenAI, called GPT-2. Imagine a vast artificial neural network the size of a bird's brain (with over 100 million parameters) trained on millions of interesting articles written by humans...
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Archive 2019Hopfield's Neural Network is More Powerful When it Sleeps and Dreams!
The article discusses how allowing Hopfield's neural network to have a proper sleep and dream enhances its performance. Scientists drew inspiration from the sleeping mammals during the development of this...
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Archive 2019Neuron-Digital Connection Will Upload Your Consciousness to a Computer.
Bzzzzzz …Hmmm. What? The computer is unresponsive. It seems the entire system has frozen. I think the transfer has failed :( No, it will be fine. Source: xkcd.com
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Archive 2019Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
Although the development of AI is still in its early stages, we are already experiencing its real benefits today. It can drive cars, detect financial fraud, translate languages, assist with...
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Archive 2019Gamers Unknowingly Helped China Build a Supermodern Police System Using Artificial Intelligence
The world today brings many surprises. Computer gamers have always demanded excellent performance from their machines and the most faithful representation of increasingly demanding games. The willingness...
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Archive 2018The Dutch Have Invented a Laser Cannon Against Birds, Controlled by Artificial Intelligence
The Dutch startup – Bird Control Group has created a bird deterrent that operates on the same principle as a larger laser pointer. The purpose of this invention is to protect…
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Archive 2018Interview with the Most Famous Robot of Our Time, Sophia
Transport yourself in the video to the largest European festival focused on the future. In the interview, among other things, you'll discover Sophia's sense of humour, whether she would sacrifice herself for the audience – if she had to, what her greatest weakness is, and so on.
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Archive 2018China Wants to Build an Underwater Base Operated by Artificial Intelligence
Experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences aim to construct an underwater base operated exclusively by robots with artificial intelligence. The base in question is set to become the 'first colony of artificial intelligence on Earth'...
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Archive 2018The Humanoid Robot Atlas from Boston Dynamics Can Now Master Parkour – You Won't Escape It Easily
The creators are continually improving the 'flow', or the ability to overcome multiple obstacles in succession. The control software can evaluate data from sensors (including Lidar) in real-time and coordinate...
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Archive 2018A Bouquet of Four Experiments with Recurrent Neural Networks
Do you also enjoy conducting experiments? Take a look at my bouquet of four experiments from yesterday's exploration with recurrent neural networks (based on a fantastic Russian school). …
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Archive 2017“AI can kill us! Let’s limit killer robots while we still can,” says the UN
A total of 22 countries, mostly with low military budgets and limited technological know-how, have called for a complete ban on the development of killer robots. This was discussed this year in Geneva…
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