The More Things Change…
Today I held 80 million year old dinosaur bones in my hands and used pics and brushes and glue to piece them back together into a rib. The tools I was using ...
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machine-learning
It’s Made of People!
An idea that I have been converging on in discussions recently spawned by Chat-GPT is that, for the purposes of risk assessment and impact, we should to thin...
Path Wars Bonus : The End Credits
Path Wars II : The End Credits
Jedi Master Dijkstra
Using ChatGPT Stories as Anchors for Teaching
Will Humans be in Control when using Artificial Intelligence Tools?
Some people ask if AI decision tools will always allow human input by 2035, I think that’s two questions in one.
The Ancient Battle Continues
Reposting now given the latest iteration of this neverending battle, because this never gets old.
Why Build a Meta-Verse?
Some spontaneous thoughts on the multiverse of metaverses and whether it’s all worth the effort.
Is AI Just a Passing Fad
Someone important recently expressed a thought to me along the following lines:
Prediction and Causality - How Can Machine Learning be Used for COVID-19? Causality, ML and COVID-19
Abstract
A New Year’s Proposal for Ontario for Autonomous Driving
In Southern Ontario, one major low-hanging fruit is allowing some level of Autonomous Driving (AD) on the 400 series highways in the High Occupancy Vehicle (...
Self-Driving ‘Edge’ Cases Aren’t All That Edgy
This is the front of my car after driving for about 20 minutes on the road in average weather conditions on the 401 between Toronto and Waterloo in December ...
ECML 2019 Notes
In September 2019 I had the good fortune to attend ECML 2019 in beautiful Wurzburg, Germany.
17 Days of AI for Good — SDG 12 — RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
“ AI is yielding optimal consumption and production levels with vertical green farms, eliminating waste, and vastly improving yields and resource efficien...
“Sometimes technology is not the answer” said an actual AI Engineering Professor.
**I’m serious. **Sometimes more technology is not the answer. I love technology, I want the intelligent Internet of Things and I love having a supercomputer ...
NIPS Conference 2012
A month ago I attended the 2012 Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Lake Tahoe Nevada. I’ve already posted some of my thoughts on some of it ...
artificial-intelligence
The More Things Change…
Today I held 80 million year old dinosaur bones in my hands and used pics and brushes and glue to piece them back together into a rib. The tools I was using ...
It’s Made of People!
An idea that I have been converging on in discussions recently spawned by Chat-GPT is that, for the purposes of risk assessment and impact, we should to thin...
Path Wars Bonus : The End Credits
Path Wars II : The End Credits
Jedi Master Dijkstra
Using ChatGPT Stories as Anchors for Teaching
Will Humans be in Control when using Artificial Intelligence Tools?
Some people ask if AI decision tools will always allow human input by 2035, I think that’s two questions in one.
The Ancient Battle Continues
Reposting now given the latest iteration of this neverending battle, because this never gets old.
Is AI Just a Passing Fad
Someone important recently expressed a thought to me along the following lines:
17 Days of AI for Good — SDG 12 — RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
“ AI is yielding optimal consumption and production levels with vertical green farms, eliminating waste, and vastly improving yields and resource efficien...
How long ago is long ago? How fast is fast?
So apparently, the first iPhone came out 10 years ago today. That kind of hit me.
conference-review
ECML 2019 Notes
In September 2019 I had the good fortune to attend ECML 2019 in beautiful Wurzburg, Germany.
17 Days of AI for Good — SDG 9— INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
“ New hybrid manufacturing incorporating AI, IoT sensors, and 4D printing is reshaping industries, representing the ’A Triple C’, and yielding exponential...
Computational Sustainability at AAAI
This week in Québec City the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference is being held and for the fourth year running there is a special track on Computational Sustainabi...
Review of RLDM2013 Conference
Last week I attended the first multidisciplinary conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2013) and I think I speak for most people who ...
NIPS Conference 2012
A month ago I attended the 2012 Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Lake Tahoe Nevada. I’ve already posted some of my thoughts on some of it ...
AAAI 2011 Wrap-Up
So I didn’t post an update about the AAAI 2011 conference every day, but really, this is more posts than I would have predicted with my prior model of my beh...
AAAI 2011 — Day 2
Day two of tutorials and workshops at AAAI 2011. The crowd is starting to grow and the robots are being set up. Things don’t get fully started until tomorrow...
AAAI 2011 — Day 1
I skipped the afternoon tutorial sessions to work on my presentation and go around town a bit but I did attend a very interesting morning tutorial on time se...
large-language-models
The More Things Change…
Today I held 80 million year old dinosaur bones in my hands and used pics and brushes and glue to piece them back together into a rib. The tools I was using ...
It’s Made of People!
An idea that I have been converging on in discussions recently spawned by Chat-GPT is that, for the purposes of risk assessment and impact, we should to thin...
Path Wars Bonus : The End Credits
Path Wars II : The End Credits
Jedi Master Dijkstra
Using ChatGPT Stories as Anchors for Teaching
artificial-general-intelligence
The Ancient Battle Continues
Reposting now given the latest iteration of this neverending battle, because this never gets old.
Is AI Just a Passing Fad
Someone important recently expressed a thought to me along the following lines:
Building the Enterprise? Seriously? Why not?
I ignored this the first time I saw it and then I was going to make snarky comment that we should just send a bunch of ships to mars instead of building the ...
agi
The Ancient Battle Continues
Reposting now given the latest iteration of this neverending battle, because this never gets old.
Is AI Just a Passing Fad
Someone important recently expressed a thought to me along the following lines:
Robot Rights Just Ain’t Right.
The European Parliament has apparently been discussing giving rights to machines.
AIForGood
17 Days of AI for Good — SDG 12 — RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
“ AI is yielding optimal consumption and production levels with vertical green farms, eliminating waste, and vastly improving yields and resource efficien...
17 Days of AI for Good — SDG 9— INDUSTRY, INNOVATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE
“ New hybrid manufacturing incorporating AI, IoT sensors, and 4D printing is reshaping industries, representing the ’A Triple C’, and yielding exponential...
17 Days of AI for Good
In a couple weeks I will have the good fortune to be attending the second AI for Good Summit in Geneva. The summit is run through collaboration between the X...
autonomous-driving
Will Humans be in Control when using Artificial Intelligence Tools?
Some people ask if AI decision tools will always allow human input by 2035, I think that’s two questions in one.
A New Year’s Proposal for Ontario for Autonomous Driving
In Southern Ontario, one major low-hanging fruit is allowing some level of Autonomous Driving (AD) on the 400 series highways in the High Occupancy Vehicle (...
Self-Driving ‘Edge’ Cases Aren’t All That Edgy
This is the front of my car after driving for about 20 minutes on the road in average weather conditions on the 401 between Toronto and Waterloo in December ...
nlp
Path Wars Bonus : The End Credits
Path Wars II : The End Credits
Jedi Master Dijkstra
Using ChatGPT Stories as Anchors for Teaching
Why Build a Meta-Verse?
Some spontaneous thoughts on the multiverse of metaverses and whether it’s all worth the effort.
science-fiction
Path Wars Bonus : The End Credits
Path Wars II : The End Credits
Jedi Master Dijkstra
Using ChatGPT Stories as Anchors for Teaching
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
This week the world lost two beautiful people who stood for hope, caring and kindness. These people happened to also be actors who most famously played chara...
chatgpt
It’s Made of People!
An idea that I have been converging on in discussions recently spawned by Chat-GPT is that, for the purposes of risk assessment and impact, we should to thin...
Path Wars Bonus : The End Credits
Path Wars II : The End Credits
Jedi Master Dijkstra
Using ChatGPT Stories as Anchors for Teaching
computational-sustainability
17 Days of AI for Good — SDG 12 — RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION
“ AI is yielding optimal consumption and production levels with vertical green farms, eliminating waste, and vastly improving yields and resource efficien...
NIPS Conference 2012
A month ago I attended the 2012 Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Lake Tahoe Nevada. I’ve already posted some of my thoughts on some of it ...
artificial-intellgience
Robot Rights Just Ain’t Right.
The European Parliament has apparently been discussing giving rights to machines.
“Sometimes technology is not the answer” said an actual AI Engineering Professor.
**I’m serious. **Sometimes more technology is not the answer. I love technology, I want the intelligent Internet of Things and I love having a supercomputer ...
reinforcement-learning
The More Things Change…
Today I held 80 million year old dinosaur bones in my hands and used pics and brushes and glue to piece them back together into a rib. The tools I was using ...
ECML 2019 Notes
In September 2019 I had the good fortune to attend ECML 2019 in beautiful Wurzburg, Germany.
humans-suck
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
This week the world lost two beautiful people who stood for hope, caring and kindness. These people happened to also be actors who most famously played chara...
It’s Better to Know about Atmospheric Engineering than Be Surprised Later
The impact atmospheric engineering could be catastrophic or life saving. But the climate emergency is existential for humanity and all life on Earth. We can’...
causality
Prediction and Causality - How Can Machine Learning be Used for COVID-19? Causality, ML and COVID-19
Abstract
Do all COVID Vaccines have the same Blood Clot Risk?
TL;DR - Maybe yes, but this study isn’t conclusive, mostly because they are so, incredibly few cases of the blood clot condition.
internet
Twitter Isn’t Even A Social Network
I’ve tried to write this blog post several times, and each time I get around to it my intro statement is no longer true.
Why Build a Meta-Verse?
Some spontaneous thoughts on the multiverse of metaverses and whether it’s all worth the effort.
natural-language-processing
Jedi Master Dijkstra
Using ChatGPT Stories as Anchors for Teaching
Why Build a Meta-Verse?
Some spontaneous thoughts on the multiverse of metaverses and whether it’s all worth the effort.
algorithms
Path Wars Bonus : The End Credits
Path Wars II : The End Credits
Jedi Master Dijkstra
Using ChatGPT Stories as Anchors for Teaching
being-nerdy
Path Wars Bonus : The End Credits
Path Wars II : The End Credits
Jedi Master Dijkstra
Using ChatGPT Stories as Anchors for Teaching
multiverse
Do you believe in the Multiverse?
Great review article of cosmology by Martin Rees, the British Astronomer Royal : One universe among many? Some people complain that scientists should be war...
physics
Do you believe in the Multiverse?
Great review article of cosmology by Martin Rees, the British Astronomer Royal : One universe among many? Some people complain that scientists should be war...
neuroscience
Miguel Nicolelis Says the Brain is Not Computable, Bashes Kurzweil’sSingularity
I disagree with this opinion on computability of human minds, but it’s fascinating research otherwise. He’s showing that new senses can be integrated into ma...
artificial-inteligence
Miguel Nicolelis Says the Brain is Not Computable, Bashes Kurzweil’sSingularity
I disagree with this opinion on computability of human minds, but it’s fascinating research otherwise. He’s showing that new senses can be integrated into ma...
reading-groups
Reviewing Papers by Reading Group
I love reading groups, and I just had an idea for how they might be able to save scientific peer review. In case you’re outside academia let me just describ...
academia
Reviewing Papers by Reading Group
I love reading groups, and I just had an idea for how they might be able to save scientific peer review. In case you’re outside academia let me just describ...
iot
“Sometimes technology is not the answer” said an actual AI Engineering Professor.
**I’m serious. **Sometimes more technology is not the answer. I love technology, I want the intelligent Internet of Things and I love having a supercomputer ...
artificial-general-intellgience
Robot Rights Just Ain’t Right.
The European Parliament has apparently been discussing giving rights to machines.
regulation
Robot Rights Just Ain’t Right.
The European Parliament has apparently been discussing giving rights to machines.
europe
Robot Rights Just Ain’t Right.
The European Parliament has apparently been discussing giving rights to machines.
weather
A New Year’s Proposal for Ontario for Autonomous Driving
In Southern Ontario, one major low-hanging fruit is allowing some level of Autonomous Driving (AD) on the 400 series highways in the High Occupancy Vehicle (...
climate-emergency
It’s Better to Know about Atmospheric Engineering than Be Surprised Later
The impact atmospheric engineering could be catastrophic or life saving. But the climate emergency is existential for humanity and all life on Earth. We can’...
geoengineering
It’s Better to Know about Atmospheric Engineering than Be Surprised Later
The impact atmospheric engineering could be catastrophic or life saving. But the climate emergency is existential for humanity and all life on Earth. We can’...
climate-change
It’s Better to Know about Atmospheric Engineering than Be Surprised Later
The impact atmospheric engineering could be catastrophic or life saving. But the climate emergency is existential for humanity and all life on Earth. We can’...
covid-19
Do all COVID Vaccines have the same Blood Clot Risk?
TL;DR - Maybe yes, but this study isn’t conclusive, mostly because they are so, incredibly few cases of the blood clot condition.
scientific-method
Do all COVID Vaccines have the same Blood Clot Risk?
TL;DR - Maybe yes, but this study isn’t conclusive, mostly because they are so, incredibly few cases of the blood clot condition.
understanding-data-analysis
Do all COVID Vaccines have the same Blood Clot Risk?
TL;DR - Maybe yes, but this study isn’t conclusive, mostly because they are so, incredibly few cases of the blood clot condition.
causal-inference
COVID-19
metaverse
Why Build a Meta-Verse?
Some spontaneous thoughts on the multiverse of metaverses and whether it’s all worth the effort.
automated-translation
Why Build a Meta-Verse?
Some spontaneous thoughts on the multiverse of metaverses and whether it’s all worth the effort.
startrek
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
This week the world lost two beautiful people who stood for hope, caring and kindness. These people happened to also be actors who most famously played chara...
futurism
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
This week the world lost two beautiful people who stood for hope, caring and kindness. These people happened to also be actors who most famously played chara...
usability
Will Humans be in Control when using Artificial Intelligence Tools?
Some people ask if AI decision tools will always allow human input by 2035, I think that’s two questions in one.
Twitter Isn’t Even A Social Network
I’ve tried to write this blog post several times, and each time I get around to it my intro statement is no longer true.
mastodon
Twitter Isn’t Even A Social Network
I’ve tried to write this blog post several times, and each time I get around to it my intro statement is no longer true.
dinosaurs
The More Things Change…
Today I held 80 million year old dinosaur bones in my hands and used pics and brushes and glue to piece them back together into a rib. The tools I was using ...
social-media
Twitter Isn’t Even A Social Network
5 minute read
I’ve tried to write this blog post several times, and each time I get around to it my intro statement is no longer true.
Why Build a Meta-Verse?
4 minute read
Some spontaneous thoughts on the multiverse of metaverses and whether it’s all worth the effort.