Next week, backprop before Werbos or Hinton!
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Next week, backprop before Werbos or Hinton!
Every week I write a short history of AI: a trend, person, or technology from AI or the fields that influenced it
This week deals with the Mechanical Turk. I look at its tricks, second life, and games with Ben Franklin, Edgar Allan Poe, and Napoleon
www.learningfromexamples.com/p/the-man-be...
A bit on AI in the Victorian imagination by way of the AI researcher’s favourite classic book, Erewhon, and what came before it
www.learningfromexamples.com/p/the-coming...
Definitional questions about AI can be tedious, but their staying power is curious. I argue that's because AI is the quintessentially Verhoevenian technology: an especially supple cypher for politics, values, beliefs, and biases
Link below
I wrote about the territory of the moment. Link below for a history of science essay about Greenland, by way of pulp sci-fi outposts, lost colonies, and Sherlock Holmes 🧊
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New blog on something I've been wanting to write about for a while: historical parallels between AI and alchemy, where they hold & where they break
www.learningfromexamples.com/p/the-econom...
extremely zoomable, super high resolution picture of de heem’s ‘flowers in a glass vase’ from 1660: tahpaul.github.io/deheem/
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A Turing test for poetry, copyright, and finetuning - three things I enjoyed writing about in this week’s newsletter. Check it out if you’re into that sort of thing
www.learningfromexamples.com/p/conversati...
in 1971 you could look like this and play a 29 year old
west point academy has identified civ vi as a promising training platform for the next generation of military strategists
guy who is sceptical of AI but supports export controls on GPUs
Colleagues at Google DeepMind wrote a new essay aiming to provide an overview of the AI for science opportunity, a nuanced take on the risks, insights on the ingredients needed to succeed, and an ambitious policy agenda. Read it below on our policy blog 🫡
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it’s good despite the bait title
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let me tell you about instrumental convergence, anon
Check it out if you’re interested in that sort of thing
Every week I publish a newsletter about AI and society. This week I looked at:
🛣️ Calls for ‘AI highways’
🌍 Safety implications of world models
✍️The first draft of the EU’s Code of Practice for AI
https://www.learningfromexamples.com/p/my-way-or-the-highway-twie?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
