Michele Pasin / Quotes

DeepMind and the Gödel Machine

many of the writers cited above would point to dozens of cool AI projects, such as Jürgen Schmidhuber’s Gödel Machine, which can self-improve by writing its…

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Machine intelligence

I mean “machine intelligence” as a unifying term for what others call machine learning and artificial intelligence. (Some others have used the term before…

Shivon Zilis - Machine Intelligence #machine-learning #artificial-intelligence #intelligence #learning #technology

Reinforcement learning inspired by the brain

DeepMind’s algorithm is directly inspired by theories about how the human brain stores, retrieves, and learns information—called reinforcement learning. The…

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Chess programs teach nothing about human chess

From a practical scientific perspective, the main benefit of the quest for artificial intelligence is what it will invariably teach us about the brain. But a…

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Data science as a way out of academia

The most accessible job to a typical physicist cum programmer goes by the job title Data Scientist. It's also one of the more high paying jobs in technology…

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Inceptionism: neural networks dreaming psychedelic images

But why does the human brain react to LSD the way it does? And, if a machine were to achieve human-like consciousness, would it also react to “digital” LSD…

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