Developmental Approach to Machine Learning? - article by L.Smith and L.Slone - Agreed

Yes, agreed. A good read, suggesting developmental machine learning, spatio-temporally continuous input data etc.: See the concept of “shape bias" from Developmental psychology. That's related to  discussions in the "AGI Digest" on recognition of "buildings, chairs, caricatures" ... and other articles from this research blog, regarding 3D-reconstruction at varying resolution/detail as one of the crucial operations in vision published in this blog and the general developmental direction which is driven from one of the...

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Human-centered AI by Stanford University - 8 years after Todor's Interdisciplinary Course in AGI in Plovdiv 2010

See: https://hai.stanford.edu/ Introducing the initiative - Oct 19, 2018: "But guiding the future of AI requires expertise far beyond engineering. In fact, the development of Human-Centered AI will draw on nearly every intellectual domain" The world first interdisciplinary course in AGI in Plovdiv University started in April 2010 and was proposed as an idea to my Alma Mater in December 2009. Among the core messages of the course were the importance of the interdisciplinarity/multidisciplinarity and the suggested...

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Ultimate AI, Free Energy Principle and Predictive Coding vs Todor and CogAlg - Discussion in Montreal.AI forum and Artificial Mind

Contents 1. The Interview - the key to true AI by the genius neuroscientist 2. CogAlg and Free Energy Principle 3. Discussion at Montreal.AI and the Ultimate AI 3.1. References to Bialek and Tishby early papers on prediction in RL 4. Ultimate Intelligence Part III ... - an informal review and a  clash of schools of thought 4.1. Intro and acknowledgments 4.2. Criticism 4.2.1. Sigma-Product-Log-Probability mathematical formula fetishism 4.2.2. Too general 4.2.3. Where's the hierarchy? 4.2.4....

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Star Symphony in Chepelare - Poetic CGI Music Video | Звездна симфония в Чепеларе

An Unreal Star Storm watched from the forests of the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria The premiere of my new music video - a poetic and artistic production with beautiful 2D visual effects, produced using computer vision for automatic compositing, masks generation, objects removal etc. Edited and rendered using my inhouse software "Twenkid FX Studio". Watch in darkness and on a big screen in 1920x1080![Български с реакции на зрители и версии...

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ДЗУ Стара Загора - 1985 и 1988 г. - DZU Stara Zagora Documentaries from 1985 and 1988 - Disk Drives and Robots

English - Below.Филми за производството в ДЗУ Стара Загора през 1985 г. и през 1988 г.,  едно от най-мощните предприятия (стопанско обединение) на унищожената високотехнологична индустрия на България. И два клипа за завода за печатни платки в Русе от 1975 и 1989 г. Впрочем, спомням си, че в една лекция на социолог на технологиите, преподавател в ПУ, в клуб "Нещото" в Пловдив, той беше споменал че технологията за производство на CD-та в ДЗУ е била собствена, разработена през 1987 г. (ако не греша). В скорошно...

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Numpy "fancy indexing" and scan_P_ debug - discussion on the development and debugging of CogAlg from September 2018

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) development, debugging, tracking patterns and bugs in Python, trees, tree-traversal, nesting, Pycharm, OpenCV, numpy,  prize for contributions, computer vision. Numpy "fancy indexing", conditional indices, iterators #8 OpenTwenkid opened this issue on Sep 2 · 55 commentsScan_P debug #10 OpenTwenkid opened this issue 12 days ago · 56 comments https://github.com/boris-kz/CogAlg/issues/8 https://github.com/boris-kz/CogAlg/...

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Montreal.AI - great source for researchers-oriented news and papers in AI, ANN, Deep Learning

That's the best I've found so far: https://www.facebook.com/MontrealAI/?tn-str=k*F The amount of publications and progress is amazing. My predictions and "complains" about the exhaustion of art and claims that art and practically everything would be soon generated automatically, thus would become less meaningful and valuable,  is already happening practically (not just theoretically) with a shocking speed of progress with the DNN and GAN.(Which in their specific implementation and brute force search may not be my choice,...

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Division as Primary Comparison Operator in CogAlg related to AGI Light Colors HSV RGB 3D reconstruction

Two on-going comment threads at CogAlg's github by me and Boris. 1) Division as a primary comparison. Light sources and objects. Reverse graphics - 3D-reconstruction as a general algorithm. Simulation. 2) Discussion and speculations about colors, HSV, RGB, hues, color visio...

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Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction - Affordances (?В М д с П)

I'd recommend this valuable resource, compiled by a number of researchers in the field of HCI. https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-encyclopedia-of-human-computer-interaction-2nd-ed It's a good food for thought. The writing may sound too academical, however even if one gets bored or tired by this style, the titles of the chapters themselves and their sequence, the topics and the pictures and tables, the historical exploration of the subjects are suggestive on their own. Part of  my way to dig and reflect...

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Rising inequality and AI - a comment on something funny from notes from the AAAI 2018 conference

A) From: https://david-abel.github.io/blog/posts/misc/aaai_2018.pdf  Seen in Montreal AI. p.14/82 " His Take: When we reach the place where robots do takeover, what do we do? The concern: “those who own the robots rule the world”. Traditionalist Response: You see AI robots in the headlines, but not in the productivity or job statistics! Same with computers. Productivity growth in the 2010s is lower than in the last five decades. E/Pop is high, unemployment is low. Rising inequality began before AI as a result of measured...

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Program Synthesis, Self-Programming, DeepCode - CodeGen - Synthesis of Everything - Казбород

Bulgarian research group in Code Synthesis in Switzerland Do you know about a trendy research group in Code Synthesis that runs in Zurich, Switzerland? Its leaders are several Bulgarian researchers from ETH with a spin-off start-up called "DeepCode". They use "Big Code", such as GitHub and neural networks, however combined with other methods. A recent article, an interview witn Martin Vechev, one of the leaders of the DeepCode https://www.republik.ch/2018/06/27/programmier-dich-doch-selbst (Mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut,...

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Delayed gratification is an ILL-Defined Concept

https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/the-marshmallow-test-todays-kids-show-more-self-control-305353 The article claims that today's children have shown more self control. I question the abstract settings of that kind of experiments, the generality and the direction of the conclusions. Comment:  The setting is ill-defined, the concept of "delayed gratification" itself, too, especially for little children. Too general conclusions. The experimenters assume that the children believe that two candies later...

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