Tournament "Plovdiv" 24.8.2019 - Long Jump and Triple Jump with Alexandra Nacheva and Momchil Karailiev

https://youtu.be/mvIO0Cblg9gБългарски Track and Field Athletics Tournament in Plovdiv that I was a camera operator and editor. The most interesting were maybe two jumps of the world champion in Junior's Triple Jump Alexandra Nacheva in Long Jump of 6.52-6.53 (foul) and another which was measured at 6.32, but had potential for about 6.50 as well.  Думи:   Александра Начева, Момчил Караилие, Пловдив, Лекоатлетически,...

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Видео разказ за първия университетски курс по Универсален изкуствен разум в света - Пловдив 2010-2011

Screencast Video in English (slightly different, shorter content): https://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2019/07/agi-course-plovdiv-2010-screencast.html Увлекателен видео разказ на български за първенството на пловдивския интердисциплинарен университетски курс и програмата по обучение по Универсален изкуствен разум (Artificial General Intelligence, AGI), които изпревариха с осем години (!) първия курс с подобна философия на MIT, Масачузетския технологически институт (МТИ) в Бостън и също с толкова години интердисциплинарния...

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Screencast Story About the World's First University Course in AGI in 2010 in Plovdiv - Artificial General Intelligence

Виж на български - друга, по-добра версия на разказа. A short story about the world's first interdisciplinary University course in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), presented at Plovdiv University in 2010 and 2011. See also the strange funny personal coincidences between me, the author of the first course, and the author of the MIT's course, starts around 5-th minut...

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BAIHUI.AI - нов български стартъп в изкуствения интелект | BAIHUI.AI - New Bulgarian AI Start-up

През юни няколко колеги са създали стартъп за изкуствен интелект с това дръзко българско име с китайско звучене. :) Засега показват, че са успели да подкарат GPT-2 преобразувател (Transformer), обучен върху български текст с 1.5 милиарда променливи, предполагам през Амазонския AWS, не са толкова богати че да имат необходимия хардуер за друго обучение. Пуснали са и кратка анимация, прилича на StyleGAN (виж www.thispersondoesntexist.com). И двете системи са с отворен код, първата е от OpenAI, втората е от NVidia. https://www.linkedin.com/company/baihuiai BAIHUI.AI...

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MIT's Interdisciplinary Billion Dollar Computing College - 9-10 years after the interdisciplinary program of Todor at Plovdiv University Etc.

Comments regarding a recent talk from Lex Fridman's AI podcast with Jeff Hawkins from Numenta: https://youtu.be/-EVqrDlAqYo Conceptually it seems Hawkins'  approach and ideas still match many of the insights and direction in my "Theory of Universe and Mind"  works from the early 2000s (published before "On Intelligence" in "Sacred Computer" - "Свещеният сметач") and afterwards. In addition to:  not following the mainstream research which is doing minimal changes which lead  to minimal progress of some...

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Shape Bias in CNN for Better Results due to Wrong Texture Bias by Default

In its intro the authors of the paper below explain that it's been a common believe in the CNN community that the ImageNet trained neural networks developed a "shape bias" and stored "shape representations",  they propose a contrary view, that CNN are texture-biased and prove it with experiments: IMAGENET-TRAINED CNNS ARE BIASED TOWARDS TEXTURE; INCREASING SHAPE BIAS IMPROVES ACCURACY AND ROBUSTNESS To me that texture-bias has been obvious and obviously wrong. The CNNs recognise texture-features and search correlations...

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Cognitive Science's Failure to Become an Interdisciplinary Field - the Multi-Interdisciplinary Blindness

Discussion of mine regarding the paper: "Perspective | What happened to cognitive science?,  10 June 2019 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-019-0626-2?fbclid=IwAR2mMzO4qzIKINXT2BUcMZAS1ZI4PONd04SHQeF7FLgvH5VTc1pwR4DcLow Available on Github: https://github.com/rdgao/WH2CogSci/blob/master/nunezetal_final.pdf?fbclid=IwAR17HIosUS-7EKdFT4a--SesVuwb3aPp-1a0yE4Rbk_q8io8w5S6nFVrWvY https://www.facebook.com/groups/RealAGI/permalink/1230556097152988/ IMO a big share of the problem lays in the whole researchers's and overall...

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SuperCogAlg & CogAlg Frame Blobs Visualisations | СуперКогАлг - алгоритъм за Универсален Изкуствен Разум

More recent visualisations from June, a completed primary bottom-up segmentation in the C++ version. Now working on deeper structures. I'm looking for partners and cofounders.По-скорошни снимки от работата на прототипа на алгоритъм за универсален изкуствен разум, надграждащо се машинно обучение без учител (unsupervised learning). Засега изглежда като компютърно зрение и обособяване и разделяне на части ("клъстериране" и сегментация). "СуперКогАлг"*...

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SuperCogAlg Blob Formation Interactive Inspection Videos

Clustering (segmentation) with my current implementation up to "blobs". Still a work in progress, but interactivity is growing. It's not yet optimized, but the rendering of the items is deliberately slow in order the relations between them to be visible during drawing. The text part resembles PDF file rendering in the past on a slow PC with poor graphics card. In the video games line, the first example resembles Conway's "Game of...

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Super CogAlg - Segments-Blobs

Call for partners and co-foundersA processed frame from the video game "Super Contra" and some segment-blob-like structures*, looking like Tetris, rendered by my work-in-progress implementation and environment for general incremental pattern discovery. Currently it follows some of the basic comparisons of  the "Vanilla" version of CogAlg, but not exactly and probably will diverge and extend, since it's not supposed to be just a port. It...

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Call for Co-founders of an R&D startup in AGI & Code Synthesis

Last update: 21.6.2019 I am looking for partners for creating a Code Synthesis and Artificial General Intelligence R&D company. Short term goals and domains include Computer Vision, Generative-Analytical Meta-Systems Research and Development, Code Synthesis, Automatic Software Development and Grounded Interactive Sensori-Motor Machine Learning and Programming. The AGI methods as of current plan would include realization of the general directions of the theory I've proposed in my early works and the world's first...

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Ghosts of Sprites of Classic Video Games in CogAlg Output

The algorithm is not practical yet, but in an output last month it started to capture the rough shape of a rocket in the sky and produced funny artifacts on the even background. Thanks to Khan for debugging the then-current version to a point of running. The spirit of the sprites of early video game systems has reincarnated in the debug pictures, displaying the coverage of the basic 2D-patterns, found by the algorithm, so called "blobs". First...

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Collection of Best papers in Computer Science conferences since 1996

An interesting historical resource and one for getting general insights on the trends - good job for the authors of the list. I notice that it's missing the AGI conference though, if it counts as CS.https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html?fbclid=IwAR0Yc_0K689o8OhmfB0oUI5VKcWg6bg3MuG95yHgcyIc8TU5ItkMw4IzKj4Thanks to the source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/MontrealAI/permalink/63141919398658...

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Neural Networks are Also Symbolic - Conceptual Confusions in ANN-Symbolic Terminology

Todor's remark to: G.H. - On the Nature of Intelligence  on Creative Destruction Lab Публикуван на 1.11.2018 г. This talk is from the Creative Destruction Lab's fourth annual conference, "Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence", hosted at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management on October 23, 2018. https://youtu.be/MhvfhKnEIqM The Hinton's message that there should be processing at different time scales is correct, but yet known and obvious. In my "school" it's about working at different resolutions...

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DeepCode's Martin Vechev's recent interview

An interview from March 2019 on code synthesis, automatic code reviews and suggestions for improvement etc. and the product they already offer: https://sifted.eu/articles/ai-is-coming-for-your-coding-job/ Demo for tensorflow suggestions As of Vechev's claims in the end about what is hard to be automated (maybe in order not to offend the developers too much), and the explanations that sophisticated software such as Word Processors, 25 or 45 million lines of code etc. are not supposed to be coded automatically in another related...

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Montreal.AI Academy Cheetsheet

A great summary and selection of links: http://www.montreal.ai/ai4all.pdf?fbclid=IwAR25GS_VstvkQ9T5yc8LpgkjHHevxMfJwkvgLtk_DWLXXlKXuI7-8CVgSvg...

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Reinforcement Learning Study Materials

Selected resources (to be extended) https://sites.google.com/view/deep-rl-bootcamp/lectures The Promise of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning + 15.3.20...

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Учене с подкрепление/подсилване/утвърждение - езикови бележки | Terminology Remarks on Reinforcement Learning Tutorial in Bulgarian

Чудесни практически уроци за начинаещи от С.Пенков, Д.Ангелов и Й.Христов в Дев.бг: Част I Част II Някои терминологични бележки от мен, ДЗБЕ/ДРУБЕ  "Транзиционна функция" - функция на преходите, таблица на преходите. В лекциите от курса "Универсален изкуствен разум" ползвах "подсилване" (може и подкрепление) и подчертавах произхода на термина от поведенческата психология ("бихевиоризъм"). Има връзка и с невропсихологията (действието на допамина) - награждаващите поведения се подкрепят/подсилват (и "затвърждават")...

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Спомени за българската високотехнологична индустрия от фото архивите | Memories from the Bulgarian High-Tech Industry

Снимки от производството и настройката на компютри, електроника и други машини и техника от българския държавен архив от 50-те до 80-те години. From the Bulgarian State Archives, from the 50-ies to the 80-ies. http://www.archives.government.bg/bgphoto/004.08..pdf?fbclid=IwAR0WWNWCCaa41ZXVUSu8himrnqAC_fmIZ25REJ8OHP4DAlD_THpkNzTDWpw Thanks to D. from the Compu  computer museum...

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On the paper: Hierarchical Active Inference: A Theory of Motivated Control and Conceptual Matches to Todor's Theory of Universe and Mind

Comment on: From "Trends in Cognitive Scinece", vol.22, April 2018.An opinion article  Hierarchical Active Inference: A Theory of Motivated Control Giovanni Pezzulo, Francesco Rigoli, Karl J.Friston https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.01.009 It's an excellent paper, would be insightful and accessible for beginners in AGI, psychologists and for seeing the big picture like "On intelligence" etc. and for readers who like divergent thinking and seeing mappings to real agent behavior and "macro" phenomenons. Good questions,...

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US Government Officially Declares AI as a Priority

In order to maintain the "economic and national security":https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/accelerating-americas-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/?fbclid=IwAR33oWgvHXnzmfDrLLx3Qg01KmpLyyPQ8Oy2hZYLu4VK1PRPQSnaC6J2A...

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DARPA's Common Sense Reasoning Program

Bottom-up and top-down reasoning should meet in the middle. DARPA and others seem to have realized that, as well as the importance of Developmental Psychology. https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-10-11 Redirected from: https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-future-of-ai-will-be-about-less-data-not-more?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter See a table with AGI/AI startups, key people and directions: https://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2016/06/agi-start-ups-and-research-institutes.html ... Interesting...

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