Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Breadth of the A.s.a. H. AI project

 The A.s.a. H. project has involved work in all but perhaps a half dozen or so of the  subfields* (dynamical systems, diagrammatic reasoning, ...) that make up AI research. I had not planned on this, it simply proved necessary. It looks like nearly all of the subfields really are important and work in any of them can be a contribution. This breadth of coverage of the subfields may be the main difference between "weak or narrow AI" and "strong AI."

* See my blog of 9 September 2010.

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Support for pantheism

 Stephon Alexander et al* argue that the universe is a learning (and therefore a thinking) machine.

But again, such extraordinary beliefs would require extraordinary evidence.

* The Autodidactic Universe, arXiv:2104.03902v1, 9 April 2021 , see also arXiv:2008.01540 The Universe as a Neural Network by Vitaly Vanchurin, 4 August 2020.