Thursday, December 28, 2023

Origins of our current crises in the 1990s, the great malformation, and the illusion of race.

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I'm passing on three clips I found most striking from David Brooks, recent NYTimes Sydney awards column : I generally don’t agree with ...
Monday, December 25, 2023

Large Language Models are not yet providing theories of human language.

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 From Dentella et al. (open source): Significance The synthetic language generated by recent Large Language Models (LMs) strongly resemb...
Friday, December 22, 2023

Three common assumptions about inflammation, aging, and health that are probably wrong

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The abstract of a recent PNAS article by Thomas W. McDade (motivated readers can obtain the whole article from me):   Significance Inflam...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

In Search of Hardness - Protocol studies, the next crypto cycle, and the next age of the world

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I’m using this posting to save for myself some clips of text from Venkatesh Rao’s most recent piece , to continue mulling over where I place...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Traumatic Memories Are Processed as Present Experience

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Ellen Barry points to work by Perl et al. showing that different patterns of brain activity underlie sad versus traumatic autobiographical...
Friday, December 15, 2023

The ebb and flow of physical and cognitive fatigue

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Matthews et al. Have investigated moment-to-moment fluctuations in fatigue using behavioral experiments and computational modeling to offer...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

AI is a camera, not an engine.

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Yet another brilliant essay from Venkatest Rao on how modern AI puts us into an age of exploration of computational reality. I got halfway ...
Monday, December 11, 2023

There are more living cells on Earth than stars in the universe: ~ 10^30 vs. ~ 10^22

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These numbers come from a fascinating piece by Dennis Overbye summarizing work by a team of biologists and geologists . Selected clips: A...
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Thursday, December 07, 2023

Goggle's Bard and Chat GPT-4 on using AI to explore beyond language and words...

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I show first the prompt I addressed yesterday afternoon to both Bard and ChatGPT-4.  The more nuanced response I received from Bard makes me...
Sunday, December 03, 2023

A flash of clarity on what current LLMs can and can not do. An AI apocalypse does not appear to be eminent...

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In his most recent newsletter, Venkatesh Rao pulls up a twitter thread he wrote in 2017 making what he calls an ontological distinction bet...
Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Meta-Learned Models of Cognition

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I pass on the text of a recent email from Behavioral and Brain Sciences inviting commentary on an article by Binz et al.  I am beginning to ...
Monday, November 27, 2023

The feasibility of artificial consciousness through the lens of neuroscience

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Some interesting perspectives from Aru, Larkum, and Shine in Trends in Neurosciences. Motivated readers can obtain a copy of the article...
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Religious wars in the tech industry.

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In this post I continue to use MindBlog as my private reference library to put down essential ideas I want to hang onto by extracting releva...
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Sunday, November 19, 2023

AI is infusing our daily lives. Is it an existential threat?

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As AI is being subtly melded into our daily lives by the Google, Apple, and Microsoft clouds there is continuing debate over whether it is o...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Personalized chatbots and wearable AI devices for melding AI with our everyday lives

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Personalized GPTs are here, but apparently not yet at the level of consumers like myself who don't want to do coding. I've been look...
Wednesday, November 08, 2023

Self-Organization: Nature's Intelligent Design

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I was to pass on this link to a talk by Clint Sprott, who initiated the Chaos and Complexity Discssion group that I was an active member of...
Monday, November 06, 2023

Visual event segmentation alters higher-level thought.

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An interesting piece of work from Ongchoco et al. :   Significance Numbers can be unexpectedly powerful. Suppose you must provide the last...
Friday, November 03, 2023

How our genes support our illusory selves - the "Baldwin effect"

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I have been thinking about giving more explanation of a paragraph from my Oct. 25 post, A Materialist's Credo : Modern neuroscience ha...
Wednesday, November 01, 2023

David Brooks on "What is a Person?"

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David Brooks has an astounding ability to simplify and present important ideas. I pass on a few clips from Chapter 5  - titled "What is...
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Monday, October 30, 2023

MindBlog's first talk therapy session with a bot.

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 I go to https://pi.ai/talk,  and......   Hey there, great to meet you. I’m Pi, your personal AI. My goal is to be useful, friendly and fun....