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    What is Artificial Intelligence?

    Published on May 17, 2017

    Computers that can recognize images, diagnose diseases and dominate every strategy game – the progress made in the field of artificial intelligence has been spectacular. But: »Artificial intelligence« (AI) – what is it exactly? And what impact will it have on work, society and companies? Everybody is discussing it. Anybody who wants to join the conversation has to understand what it is about. We make it easy: Artificial intelligence explained succinctly.

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    Artificial Intelligence is the new science of human consciousness | Joscha Bach

    Published on Jul 1, 2017

    I think right now everybody is already perceiving that this is the decade of AI. And there is nothing like artificial intelligence that drives the digitization of the world. Historically artificial intelligence has always been the pioneer battallion of computer science.

    When something was new and untested it was done in the field of AI, because it was seen as something that requires intelligence in some way, a new way of modeling things. Intelligence can be understood to a very large degree as the ability to model new systems, to model new problems.

    And so it’s natural that even narrow AI is about making models of the world. For instance our current generation of deep-learning systems are already modeling things. They’re not modeling things quite in the same way with the same power as human minds can do it—They’re mostly classifiers, not simulators of complete worlds. But they’re slowly getting there, and by making these models we are, of course, digitizing things. We are making things accessible in data domains. We are making these models accessible to each other by computers and by AI systems.

    And AI systems provide extensions to all our minds. Already now Google is something like my exo-cortex. It’s something that allows me to act as vast resources of information that get integrated in the way I think and extend my abilities. If I forget how to use a certain command in a programming language, it’s there at my fingertips, and I entirely rely on this like every other programmer on this planet. This is something that is incredibly powerful, and was not possible when we started out programming, when we had to store everything in our own brains.

    I think consciousness is a very difficult concept to understand because we mostly know it by reference. We can point at it. But it’s very hard for us to understand what it actually is.

    And I think at this point the best model that I’ve come up with—what we mean by consciousness—it is a model of a model of a model.
    That is: our new cortex makes a model of our interactions with the environment. And part of our new cortex makes a model of that model, that is, it tries to find out how we interact with the environment so we can take this into account when we interaction with the environment. And then you have a model of this model of our model which means we have something that represents the features of that model, and we call this the Self.

    And the self is integrated with something like an intentional protocol. So we have a model of the things that we attended to, the things that we became aware of: why we process things and why we interact with the environment. And this protocol, this memory of what we attended to is what we typically associate with consciousness. So in some sense we are not conscious in actuality in the here and now, because that’s not really possible for a process that needs to do many things over time in order to retrieve items from memory and process them and do something with them.

    Consciousness is actually a memory. It’s a construct that is reinvented in our brain several times a minute.

    And when we think about being conscious of something it means that we have a model of that thing that makes it operable, that we can use.

    You are not really aware of what the world is like. The world out there is some weird [viewed?] quantum graph. It’s something that we cannot possibly really understand —first of all because we as observers cannot really measure it. We don’t have access to the full vector of the universe.

    What we get access to is a few bits that our senses can measure in the environment. And from these bits our brain tries to derive a function that allows us to predict the next observable bits.

    So in some sense all these concepts that we have in our mind, all these experiences that we have—sounds, people, ideas and so on— are not features of the world out there. There are no sounds in the world out there, no colors and so on. These are all features of our mental representations. They’re used to predict the next set of bits that are going to hit our retina or our eardrums.

    I think the main reason why AI was started was that it was a science to understand the mind. It was meant to take over where psychology stopped making progress. Sometime after Piaget, at this point in the 1950s psychology was in this thrall of behaviorism. That means that it only focused on observable behavior. And in some sense psychology has not fully recovered from this. Even now “thinking” is not really a term in psychology, and we don’t have good ways to study thoughts and mental processes. What we study is human behavior in psychology. And in neuroscience we mostly study brains, nervous systems.

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    Making computers smarter with Google's AI chief John Giannandrea | Disrupt SF 2017

    Published on Sep 19, 2017

    Google's John Giannandrea sits down with Frederic Lardinois to discuss the AI hype/worry cycle and the importance, limitations, and acceleration of machine learning.

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    Our Skynet moment - Tim O'Reilly

    Published on Sep 20, 2017

    A world ruled by machines that are hostile to humanity is not a distant possibility. Complex systems evolve from much simpler forebears, and the design of the systems we are building today is already shaping the future of truly intelligent machines. We are in a defining period of the struggle for human freedom.

    Tim O’Reilly draws on lessons from networked platforms such as Amazon, Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, and Lyft to show how our economy and financial markets have also become increasingly managed by algorithms, making the case that income inequality, declining upward mobility, and job losses due to technology are not inevitable; they are the result of design choices we have made in the algorithms that manage our markets. Just as Google constantly updates its algorithms in pursuit of relevant search and ad results and as Facebook wrestles with how to rethink its algorithms for user engagement in response to fake news, we must rewrite the algorithms that shape our economy if we wish to create a more human-centered future.

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    AI explained in 101 seconds

    Published on Sep 25, 2017

    Artificial intelligence is making our devices more than just utilities. From smartphones to healthcare to autonomous cars, our own Gary Brotman explains the potential of AI to make our lives easier and more exciting.

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    Ethnography for Artificial Intelligence

    Published on Oct 6, 2017

    An introduction to ethnography for Artificial Intelligence as well as conversational analysis and its relevance to AI.

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    Artificial intelligence: Making a human connection - Genevieve Bell (Intel Corporation)

    Published on Sep 28, 2016

    We have been talking about robots and artificial intelligence forever, or so it sometimes seems. Images of smart machinery have inhabited our thinking and our literary and cultural imaginations long before technology made such objects possible. It is tempting to keep separate the art and science of the robot and the artificial intelligence that underpins it. However, there are reasons to thread them back together. After all, the AI of our imagination is the AI we have built.

    Genevieve Bell explores the meaning of “intelligence” within the context of machines and its cultural impact on humans and their relationships. Genevieve interrogates AI not just as a technical agenda but as a cultural category in order to understand the ways in which the story of AI is connected to the history of human culture.

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    Artificial Intelligence Debate - Yann LeCun vs. Gary Marcus - Does AI Need More Innate Machinery?

    Published on Oct 20, 2017

    Debate between Facebook's head of AI, Yann LeCun and Prof. Gary Marcus at New York University.

    Gary Marcus begins at 10:06
    Yann LeCun begins at 34:12

    The debate was moderated by Prof. David Chalmers.

    Recorded: Oct 5th, 2017

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    AI explained

    Published on Nov 14, 2017

    Here we take a deep dive into the current state of AI

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