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Mortal Computing, Geoffrey Hinton’s Forward-Forward Algorithm and The Self-Assembling Brain

January 6, 2023

Geoffrey Hinton is both a founding father and visionary critic of current approaches to AI.  He has repeatedly been thoughtful about the lessons the field may learn from biology.  He has also clearly spelled out fundamental limits to the currently most successful approaches of software-based learning methods that do not require prior information in the hardware.  In his new preprint…

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Evolution, not Intelligence, produces Intelligence

February 3, 2022

In his book ‘The Myth of Artificial Intelligence’ Erik Larson makes the argument that there is no known instance of any known type of intelligence producing something more intelligent than itself. Of course, past failure need not predict future failure. Unless there is a fundamental roadblock. So, let’s explore what can produce intelligence, shall we? The futurist’s notion remains that…

Is Artificial Intelligence today where brain research was 100 years ago?

November 20, 2021

Babies are not born with randomly connected brains and turned on to learn.  And yet, 100 years ago, neurobiologists were not so sure.  In fact, most of them rather liked the idea, because they disliked the alternative: the development of intelligent brains without learning – as if embryo development could determine who you are.  100 years ago, neurobiologists had only…

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What is missing for AI to become a human brain? (articles in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and at Princeton University Press)

June 22, 2021

The German newpaper Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) has published the article ‘Was der Künstlichen Intelligenz zum menschlichen Gehirn fehlt’ both in print and online (paywalled, unfortunately). It translates to ‘What AI is missing to become a human brain’. Similar English articles can be found here at The Self-Assembling Brain and at Princeton University Press.

Didn’t DeepMind just produce a self-learning AI?

April 15, 2021

Yes, they did.  MuZero was published just before Christmas 2020, and is arguably the most advanced artificial neural network based on reinforcement learning out there right now.  Its predecessor, AlphaZero already had the ability to teach itself both chess and Go (another two-person zero-sum-game without random elements).  AlphaZero beat world champions, but needed one important bit of information to learn:…