#intelligence Timeline

7d

Poland Starlink fire allegedly tied to Russian intelligence orders https://www.byteseu.com/2398237/ #Intelligence #Poland #Russia #starlink

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359d

The #AI companies are onto me!

#OpenAI recently automated the process of identifying tasks worthy of "slow" #reasoning.

In "Strategic Reflectivism...", I showed how that's key to #intelligence (human or machine).

Now available via audiopaper! 👉 https://byrdnick.com/archives/29788/upon-reflection-ep-16-strategic-reflectivism

#podcast #cogSci #philSci #philMind #compSci #epistemology #psychology #dualProcessTheory

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It's strange and frustrating that most AI researchers don't seem interested in natural intelligence.

In the early days, when "neural networks" were seen as models of brains, many people seemed at least superficially interested in neuroscience. It's not like that now. I'm sure some folks would say "yeah, and aerospace engineers don't worry about bird flight, either!" but that feels wrong to me.

If all you care about is moving cargo, then sure, flight is solved, and who cares if our designs are "biologically realistic". Similarly, if all you care about is recognizing images, playing video games, and generating slop, then AI is solved. We'll just make the current solutions better.

But I think we've barely scratched the surface of what intelligence actually is! Current AI is so narrow and so shallow by comparison, yet I think people don't even notice that because they haven't actually thought about how intelligent living things are, and in how many different ways!

#science #ai #intelligence

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117d

the systemic and fatal mistake of modern day monopoly capitalism = modern day #feudalism not #education or #intelligence earns most #money, no whoever owns #assets everyone else is dependant on = #exploitation = will ultimately lead to less #innovation + destruction of #mankind,, #rich vs #poor #inequality growing rapidly = #collapse of #society thank you

= no matter how #smart #people or #government are or act: will lose game to whoever prints #money and buys + owns the #assets (#bank, #centralbank)

the #solution: every Dollar or Euro or Pesos invested in your own #INDEPENDENCE from the #financesystem is well invested. #water, #food, #energy, DO IT NOW!

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I think it is meaningful that Marvin Minsky, sometimes called the "father of AI", seemed to hold human beings in low regard.

Here's John Searle in 1983:

Marvin Minsky of MIT says that the next generation of computers will be so intelligent that we will ‘be lucky if they are willing to keep us around the house as household pets.'

Here's Joseph Weizenbaum in 2007:

Professor Marvin Minsky of MIT, once pronounced—a belief he still holds—that ‘‘the brain is merely a meat machine.’’

He goes on to note that meat is dead and might be eaten or thrown out. Flesh is what's alive. He also draws attention to the word "merely", as in "nothing more than".

I share with Weizenbaum the belief that Minsky has clearly expressed a disdain for human intelligence. We're on the order of household pets. Our brains are no more than food or trash. Obviously Minsky doesn't speak for all AI researchers then or since, but his "meat machine" language is all over the place, and this disdain or even contempt for human intelligence and achievement is also common.

It definitely doesn't speak to a curiosity about intelligence, which I think requires at least a little bit of love and esteem.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #intelligence #GenAI #GenerativeAI

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https://www.europesays.com/3264751/ Finland’s Stubb warns Europe not to ‘overreact’ to Russian threats and sabotage – POLITICO #AlexanderStubb #borders #DonaldTrump #DonaldTusk #drones #Energy #finland #germany #Grains #intelligence #IntelligenceServices #military #Missiles #negotiations #Russia #security #Suomi #Ukraine #UnitedStates #uutiset #VladimirPutin #VolodymyrZelenskyy #WarInUkraine

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46d

THE ANIMALS WERE ALWAYS TALKING,
WE JUST COULDN'T HEAR THEM 💎

Here is some genuinely good news.

Scientists are using AI to find patterns in animal communication that humans have struggled to detect for a very long time.

Elephants appear to use individually specific calls, rather like names.

AI is revealing extraordinary structure in sperm whale clicks.

Researchers are developing systems that can analyse dolphin vocalisations and even generate dolphin-like sounds in return.

No, we have not yet built Google Translate for dolphins. Nobody is discussing fish with a porpoise over breakfast.

But something remarkable is beginning.

For most of human history, we assumed animals had relatively little to say because we couldn't understand what they were saying.

That assumption is becoming harder to maintain.

Perhaps the great breakthrough here will not be teaching animals to speak to us.

Perhaps it will be discovering that they have been communicating richly with one another all along, while we stood nearby, unable to hear them.

And I rather love the irony.

We built artificial intelligence partly to make machines think and talk more like us. But AI may end up helping humans become less deaf to everything that isn't us.

That seems like progress to me.

@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek

The video gets a little excited in places, but the underlying science is extraordinary:

https://youtu.be/jh0UFCyqNEQ?si=NbuXMSAdyHYYeYqu

#AI #Animals #Science #GoodNews #Nature #Technology #Scientists #video #artificial #intelligence