cognition – Page 2 – Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

What I Read: Artificial General Intelligence

By Andrew Fairless on December 19, 2023November 7, 2023

Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here Artificial General Intelligence Is Already HereBy Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Peter NorvigOctober 10, 2023 “Today’s most advanced AI models have many flaws, butContinue readingWhat I Read: Artificial General Intelligence

What I Read: Problems of AI Consciousness

By Andrew Fairless on December 4, 2023October 5, 2023

https://thegradient.pub/an-introduction-to-the-problems-of-ai-consciousness/ An Introduction to the Problems of AI ConsciousnessNick Alonso9/30/23 “This brief introduction is aimed at those working within the AI community who are interested in AI consciousness, but mayContinue readingWhat I Read: Problems of AI Consciousness

What I Read: artificial intelligence really hard

By Andrew Fairless on August 16, 2023July 9, 2023

https://thegradient.pub/why-transformative-artificial-intelligence-is-really-really-hard-to-achieve/ Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieveArjun Ramani and Zhengdong Wang26.Jun.2023“1. The transformational potential of AI is constrained by its hardest problems

What I Read: Ways Digital Minds Know

By Andrew Fairless on August 8, 2023July 9, 2023

https://moultano.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/the-many-ways-that-digital-minds-can-know/ The Many Ways that Digital Minds Can KnowRyan Moulton “…aspects of search engine quality are better analogies to describe the properties of LLMs than “generalization” and “memorization” are, andContinue readingWhat I Read: Ways Digital Minds Know

What I Read: What, Why ChatGPT

By Andrew Fairless on July 12, 2023June 15, 2023

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/ What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?February 14, 2023Stephen Wolfram “That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, andContinue readingWhat I Read: What, Why ChatGPT

What I Read: Computation, Artificial Intelligence

By Andrew Fairless on June 20, 2023May 1, 2023

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-approach-to-computation-reimagines-artificial-intelligence-20230413/ A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial IntelligenceAnil AnanthaswamyApril 13, 2023 “By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly — and efficientlyContinue readingWhat I Read: Computation, Artificial Intelligence

What I Learn: Preferences in Recommender Systems

By Andrew Fairless on January 23, 2023December 4, 2022

https://medium.com/understanding-recommenders/what-does-it-mean-to-give-someone-what-they-want-the-nature-of-preferences-in-recommender-systems-82b5a1559157 What Does it Mean to Give Someone What They Want? The Nature of Preferences in Recommender SystemsLuke Thorburn, Jonathan Stray, Priyanjana BenganiMar 11 “We’ll propose… concrete ways to buildContinue readingWhat I Learn: Preferences in Recommender Systems

What I Read: Mimicry, Artificial Intelligence

By Andrew Fairless on August 11, 2022July 8, 2022

Moving Beyond Mimicry in Artificial Intelligence Moving Beyond Mimicry in Artificial IntelligenceWhat makes pre-trained AI models so impressive—and potentially harmful.Raphaël MillièreJuly 1, 2022 “Sufficiently advanced mimicry is virtually indistinguishable fromContinue readingWhat I Read: Mimicry, Artificial Intelligence

What I Read: How Animals Map 3D Spaces

By Andrew Fairless on October 19, 2021October 16, 2021

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-animals-map-3d-spaces-surprises-brain-researchers-20211014/ How Animals Map 3D Spaces Surprises Brain ResearchersJordana CepelewiczOctober 14, 2021 When animals move through 3D spaces, the neat system of grid cell activity they use for navigating onContinue readingWhat I Read: How Animals Map 3D Spaces

What I Read: Same or Different? The Question Flummoxes Neural Networks

By Andrew Fairless on July 19, 2021July 2, 2021

https://www.quantamagazine.org/same-or-different-ai-cant-tell-20210623/ Same or Different? The Question Flummoxes Neural Networks.John PavlusContributing WriterJune 23, 2021 “One of the most powerful classes of artificial intelligence systems, known as convolutional neural networks or CNNs…Continue readingWhat I Read: Same or Different? The Question Flummoxes Neural Networks

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