Marvin Minsky was a great scientist, inventor and philosopher. He is one of my three idols: Marvin Minsky, Carl Sagan and Ray Solomonoff. I learnt much of what I needed to know about human-like AI from his books. This 2010 interview with
My personal work is replacing data scientists with human-level AI. Imagine what we can do if we can replace statisticians. It was us, scientists, who made those very developments in AI, and robotics that you elites so abstractly talked about
During my PhD, I was unfortunate to have to work with an advisor who had no sympathy for scientific and intellectual work. Strange, as it may sound, he advised me in the wrong direction and intentionally prolonged my PhD and
As we transition from AI Spring to AI Summer, we are witnessing a massive paradigm shift across several industry sectors. The current phase of labor automation seems centered around automation of low intelligence-intensive high-regularity jobs. These presently include clerks of
This common question was asked on quora. Here goes a semi-jocular reply. You will need to invest capital mostly. In a capitalist system, labor automation means what it means, only capital works from that point on. Sorry to say such
The Rocket AI hoax, which purportedly showed that investors should not buy into AI “hype”, was proudly promoted here. The problem here is that neither Anders Sandberg nor Riva-Melissa Tez can tell if an AI startup’s tech is novel. That is
The first “Bayesian Program Learning” paper used a strange term called “Bayesian Program Merging”. A colleague sent me the link of the paper about 2-3 years ago, he had found the paper while he was searching for one of my
The rain of Spring soothed, the roots of code have drunk thirstily, branches have diverged from the trunk, neural flowers have bloomed deep in the forest of code; germinating in the microcosm of digital soil, a new family of life
Behaviorism cast a long and wide shadow back in the day, and some of its influence can still be felt within the AI discipline. I want to focus on a few habits that are apparently left-over from behaviorist psychology, and probably
Dear Viktoriya, While the mission statement of your organization seemed fair at the time, I believe that the AI expertise level of your board is not sufficiently high, and your board of “scientific advisors” have little to do with actual