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• Gary Marcus Has Raised a $350K Bet Against Musk's Prediction of AGI by 2029. Wil...

  

  Super-AGI is pumped! The prediction: 2029 feels like a pivotal year. I’d be surprised if we don’t have AGI by then. Hopefully, people on Mars too. Read more

  The 01 June 2022 by   Bbenzon
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• The Fourth Arena: What’s Up in the World These Days? We’re Moving to a New, a Ne...

  

  About ten years of so ago I discovered object-oriented ontology (OOO) and Bruno Latour. That plunged me into a philosophy period during which I ended up taking ... Read more

  The 02 June 2022 by   Bbenzon
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• Why Did the Phrase "mental Arithmetic" Peak at About the Time of the Civil War?

  

  By "mental arithmetic" I mean the ability to do arithmetic calculations rapidly and accurately 'in one's head' without benefit of paper and pencil. I'm going... Read more

  The 07 June 2022 by   Bbenzon
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• From the Horse's Mouth on Why We Should All Be Losing Sleep Over the...

  

  Super-AGI is all bent out of shape: Eliezer Yudkowsky has just run-up a post entitled, AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities. It's tagged as a 44 minute read, which i... Read more

  The 08 June 2022 by   Bbenzon
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• Sentient AI? What’s Going On? Phenomena Are No Longer What They Seem. We Need Ne...

  

  Here’s a more or less arbitrarily selected tweet about a Google engineer who believes that a chatbot, LaMDA, derived from a large language model (LLM) is... Read more

  The 14 June 2022 by   Bbenzon
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• Relational Nets Over Attractors, A Primer: Part 1, Design for a Mind

  

  New working paper. Title above, links, abstract, table of contents, preface, and appendix below. Academia.edu: https://www.academia. Read more

  The 20 June 2022 by   Bbenzon
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• “Kubla-Khan” in Light of the Relational Nets Primer

  

  This is another post in my series of post-Relational-Net-Primer reflections. “Kubla Khan”, as I’ve explained many times, originally in this piece first publishe... Read more

  The 28 June 2022 by   Bbenzon
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• Gary Marcus and Our Innate Linguistic Capacity [Relational Net Primer]

  

  During the period that I had been writing my primer on relational networks and attractor landscapes, Gary Marcus had taken to Twitter to challenge the deep... Read more

  The 29 June 2022 by   Bbenzon
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