Bbenzon
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Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. Intellectually, I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
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New Savanna
http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 7356 )
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Friday Fotos: Super AGI Poses for Their Fans [pronouns: They, Their, Them]
Posted on 13 May 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Arithmetic and Machine Learning, Part 2
Continuing from my post of 4.26.22, Why is simple arithmetic difficult for deep learning systems? I posted this to LessWrong on 5.11.22: I’ve been thinking abou... Read more
Posted on 13 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Rodney Brooks on Compromising About Human-level AI
From [FoR AI] Steps Toward Super Intelligence II, Beyond the Turing Test: One argument is that we should not need to take into account how humans come to be... Read more
Posted on 13 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Lilacs
Posted on 12 May 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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A Postscript on Method [Symbols and Nets: Calculating Meaning in “Kubla Khan” ]
Yesterday I gave notice of my new working paper on "Kubla Khan." Today I'm posting the methodological post script. * * * * * I can hear the voices now: Naa, naa... Read more
Posted on 12 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Three Views on 13th Street in Hoboken, NJ.
Posted on 11 May 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Symbols and Nets: Calculating Meaning in “Kubla Khan”
A new working paper. Title above, abstract, table of contents, and introduction below. Download at: Academia.edu:... Read more
Posted on 11 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Using Keyframes in an End-to-end Deep Model to Project the Future Course of a...
KEMP: Keyframe-Based Hierarchical End-to-End Deep Model for Long-Term Trajectory Predictionabs: https://t.co/bYLSFQ5bGv pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 11 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Cognition is Rhythm
This is an extremely interesting video about perception, awareness, and consciousness, though I'll have to do a more than a little bit of reading to make use... Read more
Posted on 11 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Distributed Neural Pathways Underlying Social Gaze
💯"highly distributed nature of social gaze variables emphasizes network-level interactions in prefrontal-amygdala pathways in guiding social... Read more
Posted on 11 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
DALL•E in Ancient Japan
“Pre-modern Japanese scroll about cyborg brain and artificial consciousness” #Dalle pic.twitter.com/ds4RkTpiiN— hardmaru (@hardmaru) May 9, 2022There are more... Read more
Posted on 10 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
All Settled Down on My Academia Page, Part 3
Back at the end of March I noticed that my view count on my Academica page was blowing up. As you can see from this snapshot I took on May 8, things are now bac... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Multi-region Interactions and Emergence in the Brain
What kind of brain 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Who’s Losing Sleep at the Prospect of AIs Going Rogue? As Far as I Can Tell,...
I rolled over to Astral Codex Ten the other day and posted the following query: Does anyone know current Japanese sentiment about the possibility of Rogue AI... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Beyond Interpretability: Developing a Language to Shape Our Relationships with AI
Abstract: AI arrived in our lives, making important decisions affecting us. How should we work with this new class of co-workers? Read more
Posted on 07 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How About “language Models That Can Simply Read and Memorize New Data at...
Very promising that this simple technique doesn't require pre-training from scratch and has great results up to 8B model-size. Read more
Posted on 06 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Virtual Reading, Phase 2: Cultural Analytics and the Brain [1 Billion...
I’ve said a bit about virtual reading here on the New Savanna. By that I mean that the ‘reading’ is being done by a computer system that is tracing the path of ... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: While Walking in Hoboken Theother Day [transformation]
Posted on 06 May 2022
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Investigating Entrainment of Spontaneous Activity of Brain and Body Physiology...
Our new paper:Systemic physiology augmented functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning: a first evaluation investigating entrainment of spontaneous... Read more
Posted on 06 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Artificial Minds, Day 3: Do I Still Believe It?
Two days ago I posted about the need for a Gestalt Switch: From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Minds. I argued that intelligence is best conceived as a... Read more
Posted on 05 May 2022 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
