####AI
- What is an AI?
- People generally use the term Artificial Intelligence.
- They say when an AI is created. What does that actually mean?
- What does the "AI" constitute of?
- What are "AI TECHNOLOGIES" that these big startups are talking about?
- Not really traditional AI theory here. It's definitely AI. Is AI anything that can act intelligent here?
- What is morality to an AI?
- Three laws of robotics?
- Judgement?
- How are we to explain to a robot what is moral and what is not?
- Do we program this sense of morality into it?
- Do we "teach" it morality?
- Does it matter if it becomes immoral? Does this make it more humanistic?
- If we're modelling an AI after us, what are the downfalls?
- What could go wrong? What are problems with us?
- There are problems in fields in Computer Vision where when we try model how we see things we run into problems where our artificial-eye now gets tricked by illusions the same way as us.
- Is this okay?
- Is it acceptable for an AI to be just like us? Is our expectation for it to be smarter, and better than us?
- It takes a while for us to learn how to do simple things such as walk, talk, etc.
- Do we give the same liberty to robots/AI we build and allow them the same time period?
- The central idea is if we're literally trying to create another version of us.
- What is it for an AI to be intelligent?
- Should it just know things?
- How should it understand these things?
- Should an AI be programmed once? Or should it be capable or re-writing itself?
- How should it differenciate between reality and not?
- "Computers by their very nature are the most inflexible, desireless, rule-following of beasts. Fast though they may be, they are nontheless the epitome of unconsciousness. How, then, can intelligent behavior be programmed? ..." (GEB, 26)
- "[The] strange flavor of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formualisms which tell infexible machines how to be flexible." (GEB, 26)
- Do we want AI to naturally intelligence, or have general intelligence? Or do we want them to be intelligent at specific things? We are developing both. With specific intelligence we have achiveved excellence in many games (Chess), and also built theorem solvers, which require an incredible amount of logic. With general intelligence we've to approach the problem differently because the AI would have to learn to do play games as well as be able to solve theorems.
- Is an AI a better version of us? Or is it a replication of us? Or is it not us? The points in the book Superintelligence make us think that it's going to be as intelligent as us but even more. Is our aim to create something that's just like us?
####Machine Learning
- Can there be a single-learning algorithm to learn everything?
- Same algorithm to learn how to play basketball as there is to learn math.
- Mountcastle's theory & Jeff Hawkins' Framework
- Reference my Gallatin Quantification Papers (2) for this issue?
- How can we define intelligence, and then quantify it?
- Do we need to define something in order to quantify it, or do we quantify it by defining it? OR do we allow it to be quantified when we define it.
- Give and think about a breakdown of the patterns. Reserach and lookup the patterns themselves.
####Materials
- What are basic blocks that can be improved to make peoples lives better?
- Shelter: Wood, Metal
- Drainage: Sewage system
- Heat, Warmth, Light: Electricity & Electronics
- Intake: Water, Food
- Shelter: Wood, Metal
- Simplest Model
- Water, and food
- Sap that is a combination of water & food (soylent?)
####First law of thermodynamics
"The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant; energy can be transformed from one form to another, but cannot be created or destroyed."
- Every piece, every particle of you and me now was a part of something else before, and will be a part of something else in the future. There's something profoundly beautiful about that - you are just a being that can into existence by chance or by some event occuring, and every part of you is borrowed or existed somewhere else before. During your life your particles are exchanged by you drinking things, and as your skin sheds. After your death you purely become a part of something else - you are turned into something completely new, broken up into pieces, and you truly become new.
####History
History never remembers things that don't happen. Examples could be things that someone sacrifies themselves to stop - we never rememmber these individuals.
####Natural Selection
- "Natural selection does not maximize happiness or even well-being, but rather long-term reproductive success."
- Pagel, Mark (2012-02-27). Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind (p. 24). W. W. Norton & Company. Kindle Edition.
- "How did humans become self-aware?"
- "How can evolution account for the human mind?"
- "How do scientists explain things like language, that do not occur anywhere else in the animal world?"
####Design/Feedback loop
- Always get input in things that you are doing & learning. Show them what you're doing and then critically ask quesitons.
- There is no Critical discourse
- There's no discussion. It is an assertment they make from their research
- Is there are correlation between sentiments of tweets given a news article, and the sentiment of the news article title itself. So if we score a sentiment for the title - would there be a relationship between that and the sentiments of the tweets.
- For a sad title - would the things people tweet out be sad?
- What is the purpose of the accumulation of knowledge?