Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AI. Show all posts
Information technology is going to erode the need for work
Paul Mason: "Information technology is going to erode the need for work"
"If you ever get to a situation, where humanity is stood to the side of the production process, letting machines do the job, you will need for knowledge to become social"
[Marx, by Paul Mason]
"If such [automated] machines ever existed, the difference between master and slave would disapear"
[Aristotle]
"The two sources of truth in modern life (universities and the media) are on the systemic attack by the new thought architects of fascism"
Paul Mason: here
Aging / Numbers / Biometrics
TEDxSF - Joe Betts-Lacroix - Stayin' Alive: Don't Go Gentle into that Good Night
The Sens foundation:
Mission: The Foundation catalyses progress toward a comprehensive panel of rejuvenation biotechnologies through its growing global networks and collaborations, and through key research projects, executed in its own Research Center and numerous affiliated universities, research organizations and other centers of excellence.
link
VIUM:
Vium is a translational medicine company focused on improving the success of drug development. Through the creation of more precise and reproducible disease models, Vium’s digital platform provides physiological biomarkers that enable better decisions on which compounds should be advanced to the clinic.
Vium’s Digital Vivarium™ and Vium Cloud is the gold-standard in vivo platform combining computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning and sensor technology to non-invasively collect and derive insights from digital biomarkers. The Vium platform continuously captures physiological metrics and behaviors non-invasively, providing more sensitive and accurate data collection, leading to more replicable studies. By providing researchers with these continuous, rich data sets, the platform enables them to identify which digital biomarkers, or combinations of biomarkers, are the strongest indicators of disease.
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God Google / Mapping the Human Body
Google Attempts to Map Human Body
"Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious and difficult science project ever: a quest inside the human body.
Called Baseline Study, the project will collect anonymous genetic and molecular information from 175 people—and later thousands more—to create what the company hopes will be the fullest picture of what a healthy human being should be." Here.
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Experiments in Musical Intelligence
Tech Closeup: Music Professor
Compor música 'ao estilo de', e os especialistas não conseguem detectar que a música foi composta por um computador. Aqui.
O valor humano
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| Ex Machina, de Alex Garland |
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus
Language and Thought / Did language evolve for thought?
Language and Thought, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines
Patrick H. Winston:
The 'combinator capability' [that differenciates humans from Neanderthals and primates] allows description, and once you got description there's a trail that can lead you all the way up to the 'strong story hypothesis'
[+/- min 18:40]
Story understanding is very fundamental to any real understanding of human intelligence.
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Steven Pinker:
Example: The story of how How doctors killed President Garfield
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What makes conceptual development possible, and what makes it so hard?
How is it, we are the only animals who can think thoughts formulated on concepts like cancer or infinity or wisdom or carborator? What makes this possible? The acquisition of concepts, possible?
Cognitive science has the theoretical and methodological tools to answer both questions.
Probably the most seminal work on this classical set of issues has happened at MIT, both in the linguistics department (Chomsky) and the AI department and the brain and cognitive science department.
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On language understanding and intelligence.
To use a conceptual system you need to run through a logic. We are trying to figure out the blueprint of this logic.
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Q&A:
Q: – On the many levels of meaning (literal meanings, enriched meanings...): How does this affect your research when you work with young children and you test their understanding of number words? In these tasks you have to give them full sentences, you have to ask them things like: "Can you give me two cookies..."
A: – Susan Carey answers.
A: – Gennaro Chierchia answers.
Q: – Do you see any role for the more logical part of the vocabulary. Whether you think that it really needs to be modeled in a precise way to make sense of people understanding stories?
A: – Patrick Winston answers. "How can we humans make ourselves smarter? – If we want to make ourselves smarter, draw pictures and talk, because we have tremendous problem solving power in our visual and linguistics systems. So, to make ourselves smarter, we have to engage these systems, and one way to engage them is to draw pictures and talk. You can't do that when you're answering your email. You can only do that when you're taking notes, with a pencil and drawing, and engaging your language system. The miracle of human language and visual processing systems."
Q: – On language as a vehicle of thought. Language learning is partly like mapping. There's another idea that working in linguistics suggests, that is that natural language IS the language of thought.
A: – Steven Pinker answers. "It's very unlikely that any language that we speak, is a language of thought. There are a lot of experiments that show that. The actual sentences that we speak don't make the kinds of distinctions that are relevant for inference. I'm very skeptical of the idea for which language, as it's ordinarily understood, is what we think in. Although I do think that there is a representation that, in some regards, is language-like. It makes categorical distinctions, it is hierarchically structured, that is very closely related, though not identical to what we think as the semantic representations that align sentences."
A: – Susan Carey answers. "Another problem with identifying language with thought is that, if you do so, you stipulate that other animals can't think. But it partly depends what you mean by 'thought', as what you mean by 'language', because other animals have very powerful abstract conceptual representations, that they can draw inferences over. They have many of the same core cognition systems that human babies do. So you'd have to define that as not thought if you want to make that stipulation.
Gennaro Chierchia adds: "We really work on the functional architecture of language, and that involves such interesting words as: and - or - if - any - not - even - only - 'ing'... And that is where you find what is the most common throughout the languages of the world and also where some key dimensions of variotions take place."
Q: – Susan Carey: "Can animals represent the conditional. Do they have anything like the concept 'not' or 'or'? The evidence is probably yes, but not clear."
Patrick Winston: "I think there is an inner language and I think it came before communication. partly because, there's no point in saying anything if you don't have anything to say. And I think our external language emerged in part because we're social animals and our external language is of great benefit in thinking because I think there's a great deal of creativity in creative misunderstanding of what other people say. But I think there are computational reasons why the inner language ought to be simpler, more economical, because we have to compare things, we have to match them, and it would be extraordinarily difficult from a computational point of view, to try to do that with the raw uncannonicalized language stream. So we can't match a story in the newspaper to Cinderella and say, 'oh that's a Cinderella story', unless we have reduced the story and Cinderella to a kind of inner language in which there's movement through space, there's a capacity to express emotion, there's a capacity to express social relationships... And I think that those kinds of things constitute the inner language, and when they're rendered in simple form they make possible this kind of analogizing and precedent-based reasoning that is fundamental to human thought, and I'll bet you pansies don't do it because they'd be a lot smarter if they did."
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The importance of analogies. Analogy is extremely important to create new representational resources. But it doesn't mean we understand how it works. (Carey and Chierchia)
On metaphors and on how analogical the human mind is. Every sentence has some kind of concrete image behind it. (Pinker)
