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Diversity And Inclusion. Business Employment Leadership

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Stephen Berger
Date
January 10, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Artificial Intelligence, Centre for Excellence in Universal Design (CEUD), universal design}

Universal Design and Artificial Intelligence

_{Do AI systems serve us all?} _{Stephen Berger

January 10, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence}

An elderly couple I know recently sold their home and became renters. They thought they had sold their house for a good price, but I am not so sure. I am pretty sure they were swindled by a smooth sales pitch from one of those home-buying companies that are buying up so many homes. They had been homeowners, paying off their mortgage and getting the benefit of the rising value of their home. Now, they are renters, helping to pay their landlord’s mortgage and increasing his net worth. All this got me thinking about universal design and artificial intelligence (AI). Universal design is the discipline of designing products and services for as large a part of the population as possible. Read More ›

Red Pill Blue Pill concept. The right choice the concept of the movie matrix. The choice of tablets

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
January 8, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Agent Smith (character in Matrix series), Analyst (character in Matrix), Neo (character in Matrix), Trinity (character in Matrix)}

Matrix Resurrections: What Does Existence Outside of Time Mean?

_{Call me a sentimental child, but I liked watching Neo and Trinity fly off into the sunset. I liked watching them fly in the same way those random birds kept flying in a circle. Did it make sense?} _{Gary Varner

January 8, 2022

7

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

For all the latest Matrix movie’s faults The Matrix: Resurrections it tried to play with an interesting concept, the difference between linear speed and time. In the previous two reviews, we discussed Trinity becoming the One, the merit behind the writer’s decision, and one of the fatal flaws within the Matrix series as whole, which is technology being used as an ambiguous magic system rather than a system with clearly defined rules. This time we’ll discuss the movie’s villain, the The Analyst. I vacillated about this character, unable to make up my mind about whether or not the Analyst was a worthy addition to the series. To be honest, I’m still not sure, but I’m leaning toward yes because of Read More ›

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Author
Caitlin Cory
Date
January 8, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Social Media

Tagged
Artificial Intelligence, Candie Frazier, Casey Newton, Content moderation, Facebook, Google, social media, The Verge, TikTok, YouTube}

Social Media Content Moderator Sues TikTok for PTSD

_{Social media moderators protect users from graphic content, but who protects the moderators?} _{Caitlin Cory

January 8, 2022

6

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media}

A social media content moderator is suing TikTok, a popular video app, for psychological trauma developed from 12-hour shifts moderating endless graphic videos. Candie Frazier works for Telus International, a Canadian contracting firm providing moderation services to social media apps like TikTok. Frazier filed a complaint with the California Central District Court in December, alleging that TikTok and parent company ByteDance do not provide enough support for the psychological wellbeing of their contracted moderators, whose job it is to remove violent, graphic, and otherwise inappropriate content from the platform. TikTok’s popularity exploded in the aftermath of pandemic lockdowns, especially among millennials and Generation Z. As of September, TikTok reported 1 billion users every month. In her complaint, Frazier explains that Read More ›

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Author
Gary Smith
Date
January 3, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Blase Aguera y Arcas, Featured, Gary Smith and GPT-3, Google, GPT-3, LaMDA, Large Language Models (LLMs), Marvin Minsky, OpenAI}

Chatbots: Still Dumb After All These Years

_{Intelligence is more than statistically appropriate responses} _{Gary Smith

January 3, 2022

6

Artificial Intelligence}

In 1970, Marvin Minsky, recipient of the Turing Award (“the Nobel Prize of Computing”), predicted that within “three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.” Fifty-two years later, we’re still waiting. The fundamental roadblock is that, although computer algorithms are really, really good at identifying statistical patterns, they have no way of knowing what these patterns mean because they are confined to MathWorld and never experience the real world. As Richard Feynman famously explained, there is a fundamental difference between labeling things and understanding them: [My father] taught me “See that bird? It’s a brown-throated thrush, but in Germany it’s called a halsenflugel, and in Chinese they call it a chung ling and even Read More ›

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
January 1, 2022

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Lana Wachowski, Matrix Resurrections (film), Technology portrayed in film}

The Matrix Resurrections: Technology as a Soft Magic System

_{Gary Varner

January 1, 2022

8

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Stakes and believability are connected, especially when it comes to science fiction. Last time, we discussed the most controversial element of the The Matrix: Resurrections , as well as the meta narrative Lana Wachowski set out to establish at the beginning of the film. Now, the Matrix Resurrections is much better than The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003) because it, at least, brings the original trilogy full circle. That being said, there are loads of problems, and many of them are issues I’ve already discussed in reviews of the earlier films First, we have the pacing issue. Wachowski says too much too fast. This time, we’re not getting conflicting narratives that are confusing the plot but rather Read More ›

Beautiful woman undecided which man to choose

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
December 30, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Programming

Tagged
Artificial intelligence (and common sense), Featured, GPT-3 (and common sense), Paul Allen (on AI and common sense), Simulation vs. understanding, Winograd Schema (and common sense)}

New: AI Learns to Simulate Common Sense

_{It is a simulation because the AI can perform the task but does not “understand” what the concepts mean} _{Robert J. Marks

December 30, 2021

3

Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Programming}

Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, was concerned AI had no common sense. In early 2018, Allen said “AI still lacks what most 10-year-olds possess: ordinary common sense.” He continued, “If we want AI to approach human abilities and have the broadest possible impact in research, medicine and business, we need to fundamentally advance AI’s common sense abilities.” Billionaire Allen coughed up $125 million and founded the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle. I believed that AI would never simulate common sense but always left the door open. Unlike understanding, creativity and sentience, common sense could possibly be computable. There was no indication that common sense was non-algorithmic. And now AI has simulated common sense. The classic test for Read More ›

3d rendering of Human cell or Embryonic stem cell microscope background.

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
December 27, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Science

Tagged
Artificial intelligence (powered by human brain cells), Brain organoids (playing Pong), Consciousness (brain organoids), Cortical Labs, Featured, Free energy principle (FEP), Human embryonic stem cells, Human embryonic stem cells (and consciousness), Human-induced pluripotent stem cells, Organoids (brain organoids), Organoids powering appliances (ethics), Pong (video game)}

Are the Brain Cells in a Dish That Learned Pong Conscious?

_{Human-derived organoids learned faster than AI and always outperformed mouse-derived organoids in terms of volley length, raising troubling questions} _{Eric Holloway

December 27, 2021

5

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Philosophy of Mind, Science}

Recently, science media were abuzz with a remarkable story about minibrains (mouse and human brain cells in a dish) learning to play the video game Pong: Scientists have successfully taught a collection of human brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game “Pong” — kind of. Researchers at the biotechnology startup Cortical Labs have created “mini-brains“ consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish, New Scientist reports. The cells are placed on top of a microelectrode array that analyzes the neural activity. “We think it’s fair to call them cyborg brains,” Brett Kagan, chief scientific officer at Cortical Labs and research lead of the project, told New Scientist. Tony Tran, Read More ›

Movie at cinema concept. 3D glasses with red and blue lenses with soft colored shadow on dark background.

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
December 25, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Agent Smith (character in Matrix series), Featured, Laana Wachowski, Last Jedi (film), Matrix Resurrections (film), Matrix Trilogy (films), Neo (character in Matrix), Rian Johnson, Trinity (character in Matrix)}

The Matrix Resurrections: The Studio Is Making Us Do This!

_{Mark Zuckerberg, eat your heart out. If there is one word to describe this movie, that word is Meta.} _{Gary Varner

December 25, 2021

6

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Let’s address the most contentious issue first. This movie isn’t great, but it’s not The Last Jedi bad. Matrix fans aren’t going to be storming the gates in protest, because their beloved characters were assassinated for “the message.” It’s true that Neo is nerfed so that Trinity can take his place. This is annoying because, as I’ve said before, nobody wants to see a Dragon Ball Z spectacle featuring Neo’s powers just so the poor sap could die in obscurity because nothing he did mattered anyway. They didn’t do this, and that is to the writer’s credit. If there was anybody who deserved a deus ex machina sent by the Social Justice Warriors from on high, it was Trinity. Her Read More ›

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Author
Heather Zeiger
Date
December 18, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Education

Tagged
AI 2041 (book), Chen Quifan, Kai-Fu Lee, Kazuo Ichiguro, Klara and the Sun, Techno-optimism}

What If Your Schooling Meant an AI Telling You What To Do?

_{Lee and Chen are techno-optimists. They recognize the benefits of innovative technologies while acknowledging its inherent limitations and societal costs} _{Heather Zeiger

December 18, 2021

9

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Education}

Author, CEO of Sinovation Ventures, and former head of Google China, Kai-Fu Lee, shared with COSM 2021 his predictions for the future of AI. His presentation drew from his book AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, co-authored with prominent science fiction writer Chen Quifan. AI 2041 offers seven short stories that explore the ethical and societal implications of machine-learning technologies on various industries, such as manufacturing, art, and education. The last three chapters address potential societal and geopolitical issues raised by artificial intelligence. Each short story includes an “analysis” section, authored by Lee, which delves into the issues raised by the story and its characters. Lee and Chen are techno-optimists. They recognize the benefits of innovative technologies while acknowledging Read More ›

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
December 18, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind, Relationships

Tagged
Agent Smith (character in Matrix series), Dualism (in Matrix film series), Featured, Hugo Weaving, Matrix Revolutions (film 2003), Neo (character in Matrix), Trinity (character in Matrix)}

The Matrix Trilogy: Some Final Thoughts

_{I enjoyed the films and am looking forward to the Matrix Resurrections but there are some things I need to say as a reviewer} _{Gary Varner

December 18, 2021

5

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind, Relationships}

While waiting for The Matrix: Resurrections, December 22: I admit, I’ve given this trilogy a hard time. But I do actually enjoy the films… when I’m not thinking about them. There are some good elements, and I want to point those out before going further. First of all, the relationship between Neo and Trinity is solid. It develops with the trilogy and we don’t have to suffer through a bunch of “will they?/won’t they?” tropes. A viewer can get invested in their relationship, so it hurts when Trinity dies. I appreciate any film where this risk is taken, instead of breaking up the characters and then getting them back together just so the writers don’t have to show the relationship’s Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
December 14, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Global Technology

Tagged
Andrew McDiarmid, China (high tech), Erik Larson, Featured, GPT3, Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (book 2018), You Are Not a Gadget (book 2011)}

Understanding the de Facto Cold War With China

_{High tech is currently a battlefield between freedom and totalitarianism} _{News

December 14, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Global Technology}

In “Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation” (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, programmer and author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard University Press, 2021) on the wrong path he thinks some analysts are taking in terms of what machines can and can’t do. Plus they discussed Alan Turing’s change of heart. Then they looked at the critical fact that Big Data can easily be the enemy of new ideas. And now, the future …? https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/34ce0d74-aa74-4ad9-9599-e9ddf2be56a7-Mind-Matters-News-Episode-163-Erik-Larson-.mp3 This portion begins at roughly 38:23 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. They began with: How do we determine that we are not simply manipulated by social media? Larson recommended a book by computer scientist Read More ›

Analytics data big business intelligence background bi

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Author
News
Date
December 10, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Andrew McDiarmid, Big Data (as stifling innovation), Big Data (suppressing new ideas), Copernicus (data problem), Eric J. Larson, Human Brain Project (demise), Innovation (lagging)}

Why Big Data Can Be the Enemy of New Ideas

_{Copernicus could tell us how that works: Masses of documentation entrench the old ideas} _{News

December 10, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence}

In “Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation” (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, programmer and author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard University Press, 2021) on the wrong path in terms of what machines can and can’t do. Now they look at the critical fact that Big Data can easily be the enemy of new ideas. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/34ce0d74-aa74-4ad9-9599-e9ddf2be56a7-Mind-Matters-News-Episode-163-Erik-Larson-.mp3 This portion begins at roughly 30:00 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Andrew McDiarmid: Are there lessons about the ethics of innovation from the past that would be useful to us today? Can you think of anything they learned about innovation in the past that we could really learn from as we’re innovating today? Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
December 8, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Abduction (form of reasoning), Alan Turing (change of heart), Andrew McDiarmid, Erik Larson, Featured, Hollywood (and Big Data), Myth of Artificial Intelligence (book)}

Did Alan Turing’s Change of Heart Set AI on the Wrong Path?

_{Erik Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, thinks Turing lost track of one really important way minds differ from machines} _{News

December 8, 2021

12

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind}

In the earlier part of this episode of “Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation” (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard University Press, 2021) discussed the big switch in computer science, roughly around 2000, from deductive to inductive logic — because Big Data made inductive logic more productive. Now they look at what machines still can’t do: This portion begins at about 12:39 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Andrew McDiarmid: I found some of your podcasts on the web and in one of them you say, “I don’t know what a mind is, but I know what a machine is.” So how does that Read More ›

Big data futuristic visualization abstract illustration

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Author
News
Date
December 7, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Global Technology, Machine Learning, Philosophy

Tagged
AI (year 2000 change), AI winter (c. 2000), Andrew McDiarmid, Deductive logic (and AI), Erik Larson, Featured, Inductive logic (and AI)}

How AI Changed — in a Very Big Way — Around the Year 2000

_{With the advent of huge amounts of data, AI companies switched from using deductive logic to inductive logic} _{News

December 7, 2021

10

Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Global Technology, Machine Learning, Philosophy}

In “Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation” (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do (2021) (Harvard University Press, 2021) on the way “Machines will RULE!” hype discredits — and distracts attention from — actual progress in AI. Erik Larson has founded two two DARPA-funded artificial intelligence startups. Inthe book he urges us to go back to the drawing board with AI research and development. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/34ce0d74-aa74-4ad9-9599-e9ddf2be56a7-Mind-Matters-News-Episode-163-Erik-Larson-.mp3 This portion begins at 01:59 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Andrew McDiarmid: Can you paint a picture first for us of what the AI landscape looks like today and why it’s not Read More ›

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
December 4, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Machines (imagined relationships), Matrix Revolutions (film 2003), Merovingian (character in Matrix), Morpheus Trinity (character in Matrix), Neo (character in Matrix), Science fiction, Trinity (character in Matrix)}

The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Spins Out of Control

_{In Part I of this review of the third film in The Matrix trilogy — anticipating The Matrix: Resurrections (December 22) — we bring you up to date on the story} _{Gary Varner

December 4, 2021

6

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Recently, I’ve been reviewing — and reminiscing, if you like — The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003). After all, The Matrix: Resurrections opens December 22. Although I find the plots disjointed so far, I can at least provide you with a cheat sheet for what happened earlier. Now let’s see what happens in the third film in the turn-of-the-millennium trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions (2003). Alas, the confusion continues. The movie opens with our lead characters discovering that Neo is not in a coma after all but has been taken to a zone between the Matrix and the real world; think digital purgatory. How does this happen? We don’t know. How can Neo be taken anywhere when he’s not Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
December 1, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Programming

Tagged
Complexity (and contingency), Contingencies (in software design), Contingency (and complexity), Domain expertise (and reduced failures), Featured, Formula 409, Justin Bui, Nicola Tesla (on Thomas Edison), Robert J. Marks, Sam Haug, Thomas Edison (and light bulb), Turbidity, WD-40}

Iron Law of Complexity: Complexity Adds But Its Problems Multiply

_{That’s why more complexity doesn’t mean more things will go right; without planning, it means the exact opposite. The math is scary} _{News

December 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Programming}

In “Bad news for artificial general intelligence” (podcast Episode 160), Justin Bui and Sam Haug from Robert J. Marks’s research group at Baylor University joined him for a look at how AI can go wrong — whether it’s an inconsequential hot weather story or imminent nuclear doom. Now, in Episode 161, they start by unpacking the significance of an ominous fact: When we increase complexity by adding things, we multiply the chances of things going wrong. Never mind getting an advanced machine to solve all our problems; it can’t solve its own: A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Robert J. Marks: I recently vetoed a family member’s suggestion that we put a lock on our Read More ›

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Author
Eric Holloway
Date
December 1, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Biology

Tagged
Douglas Blackiston et al., Featured, Self-replication (frog stem cell claims), Self-replication (information problem), Von Neumann Universal Constructor, Xenobots (frog stem cells)}

Is the Age of the Living, Self-Replicating Robot at Hand? No.

_{Stem cells naturally reproduce themselves. The researchers working with frog stem cells merely found, via algorithms, one configuration that works better} _{Eric Holloway

December 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Biology}

Recently, the sci-fi dream of self-replicating robots has been in the news, thanks to the University of Vermont, Tufts University, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard. A recent experiment with frog cells was hailed by news outlets as disparate as CNN (“World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say”) and Daily Wire (“American Universities Create First ‘Self-Replicating Living Robots’”). And it was also debunked by Ars Technica: (“Interesting research, but no, we don’t have living, reproducing robots”). So what’s really happening? Self-replication is a very tricky problem of information. To truly self-replicate, an organism must completely copy the information necessary for function. Seems simple enough but it introduces a conundrum. For the organism to copy Read More ›

iot smart automotive Driverless car with artificial intelligence combine with deep learning technology. self driving car can situational awareness around the car, letting it navigate itself 360 degree

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Author
News
Date
November 29, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Programming

Tagged
Artificial intelligence (unintended contingency), Autonomous vehicles (2021), Complexity (contingency increase), Contingency (increases with complexity), Deep Blue (glitch), Featured, Gary Kasparov (spooked by Deep Blue), IBM Watson (in medicine), Jeopardy (Watson's "Twenties" mistake), Jeopardy (Watson's win), Justin Bui, Neural networks (GIGO principle), O.K.O incident (Cold War 1983), Paul Harvey, Rest of the Story (radio series), Robert J. Marks, samuel haug, Self-driving cars (2021), Stanislav Petrov}

When AI Fails, the Results Are Sometimes Amusing. Sometimes Not.

_{Robert J. Marks, Justin Bui, and Samuel Haug examine five instances where AI went wrong, sometimes on the world stage} _{News

November 29, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Programming}

Even if artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be achieved, a problem looms: The more complex a system is, the more can go wrong. If a computer could really match human thinking, a great deal could go wrong. In “When AI goes wrong” (podcast 160), Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks is joined once again by members of his research group, Justin Bui and Samuel Haug, who is a PhD student in computer and electrical engineering. The topic is, what happens if AI starts behaving in bizarre and unpredictable ways? https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/f5d26d44-cb33-4736-bc75-f95bd8f3ae5f-Mind-Matters-Episode-160-Haug-and-Bui-Episode-2-rev1.mp3 A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Robert J. Marks: Okay. I want to start out with Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story. Either Read More ›

military robot and skulls of people. Dramatic apocalypse super realistic concept. Rise of the Machines. Dark future. 3d rendering.

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Author
Gary Varner
Date
November 27, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy

Tagged
Free will (as explored in Matrix Reloaded), Matrix Reloaded (film 2003), Matrix Trilogy, Science fiction, Zion (fictional city in Matrix)}

The Matrix Reloaded (2003) Just Did Not Load Properly

_{Although the second part of the Matrix trilogy offers interesting ideas and exciting action, the confusing plot obscures the concepts it should explore} _{Gary Varner

November 27, 2021

6

Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy}

What a mess of a story is The Matrix Reloaded (2003) — the second part of the Matrix (1999) trilogy, in which the world we know turns out to be a simulation created by AI intelligences. We met some of the characters in the first part, The Matrix (1999), reviewed here. But then what happened? First, we’re introduced to the new technician, Link, but no one explains where his predecessor Tank went. Then Zion (“the last human city, the only place we have left”) is introduced and there we find ourselves at the infamous Party Scene: To look at this techno-hedonistic rave, one might think we’ve entered volcano-challenged Pompeii of long ago. But this party is more reminiscent of the Read More ›

Young african male programmer writing program code sitting at the workplace with three monitors in the office. Image focused on the screen

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Author
News
Date
November 26, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Sports

Tagged
Featured, Helmet detection (football), Justin Bui, Kaggle, Keyboard engineers (concept), Robert J. Marks, Stack Overflow (website), transfer learning, Yuri Danilov (football)}

Have a Software Design Idea? Kaggle Could Help It Happen for Free

_{Okay, not exactly. You have to do the work. But maybe you don’t have to invent the software} _{News

November 26, 2021

11

Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Sports}

In a recent Mind Matters podcast, “Artificial General Intelligence: the Modern Homunculus,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks, a computer engineering prof, spoke with Justin Bui from his own research group at Baylor University in Texas about what’s happening — and isn’t happening — in artificial intelligence today. The big story turned out to be all the free software you can use to advance your own projects. This time out, Dr. Bui focuses on what open source (free) Kaggle software can do for you, including competitons. Call it science non-fiction, if you like… https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/d4505b4a-de80-40ae-a56c-2636563f3453-Mind-Matters-Episode-159-Justin-Bui-Episode-1-rev1.mp3 This portion begins at 12:58 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Justin Bui: Kaggle is owned by Google; I Read More ›