Tuesday, July 20, 2021

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Intel is approaching AGI - Cognitive AI

A recent talk by Intel is revealing that they have a clue about the direction: SL 5 Gadi Singer - Cognitive AI - Architecting the Next Generation of Machine Intelligence Some commented that this is a new hype term, however in mid-2000s there was "Cognitive Computing" (it is used here in the blog, too). Hawkins/Numenta were part of that branch, so it is not so new, related to Cognitive Architectures et...
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Friday, July 16, 2021

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ASTRID - Cognitive Architecture by Mind Construct based on bootstrappng Common Sense knowledge and knowledge graphs

ASTRID, or "Analysis of Systemic Tagging Results in Intelligent Dynamics" is a Cognitive Architecture project of the dutch AGI company "Mind Construct". They express bold statements about their prototype.  Learn more:  https://mindconstruct.com/website/astridand the paper: https://mindconstruct.com/files/selflearningsymbolicaicritcalappraisal.pdfI agree with the claim ot the ASTRID authors that "symbolic" systems can learn. The problem of the systems which don't is that their "symbols" are too narrow and lack the...
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Sunday, July 11, 2021

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On Free Will as an Ill-Posed Problem | Improperly-posed problem

Comment of mine on a post in Real AGI group. referring to an article "The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion?" Todor: Whether or not somebody or something has a "free will" depends on how exactly "free will" is defined, both "free" and "will", also "you". I think all that discussion and the "catastrophic" consequences are largely anglosaxon-centered views or ones belonging to "control freaks" and sound like sophisms. Of course one can never be of full control of "his" choices, you are formed by an endless...
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Wednesday, July 7, 2021

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Todor's Comments on the Article "AI Is Harder Than We Think: 4 Key Fallacies in AI Research" - no, AGI is actually simpler than it seems and you think

Comment of mine on the article "AI Is Harder Than We Think: 4 Key Fallacies in AI Research" https://singularityhub.com/2021/05/06/to-advance-ai-we-need-to-better-understand-human-intelligence-and-address-these-4-fallacies/ Posted on Real AGI FB group The suggested fallacies are:1. Progress in narrow intelligence is progress towards general intelligence2. What’s easy for humans should be easy for machines3. Human language can describe...
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