Experimental Epistemology for ML & AI

1. Why AI Works

Artificial Understanding

1. Why AI Works

Intelligence = Understanding + Reasoning

Models of Molecules

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2. Our Greatest Invention

Model Based Problem Solving

3. Two Dirty Words

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3. Two Dirty Words

Reductionism is the use of Models. Holism is the avoidance of Models. Models are scientific Models, Theories, Hypotheses, Formulas, Equations, Superstitions (!) and most computer programs.

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4. Reduction

Epistemic Reduction is a process that discovers higher level abstractions in lower level data by discarding everything at the lower layer that it recognizes as irrelevant

5. Why Deep Learning Works

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5. Why Deep Learning Works

Deep Learning Performs Epistemic Reduction

6. Experimental Epistemology for AI

Experimental Epistemology

6. Experimental Epistemology for AI

We can now create computer based experimental implementations to Epistemology-level theories in order to test them and learn from the outcomes

7. The Red Pill of Machine Learning

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7. The Red Pill of Machine Learning

Reductionism is the use of Models. Holism is the avoidance of Models. Models are scientific models, theories, hypotheses, formulas, equations, naïve models based on personal experiences, superstitions (!), and traditional computer programs

8. Organic Learning

Organic Learning

8. Organic Learning

An Evolution Based Alternative to Deep Learning for Natural Languages that can learn a useful amount of any language on the planet in five minutes on a laptop

9. Understanding Machine One

Experimental Epistemology

9. Understanding Machine One

UM1 is a cloud based REST service that provides Natural Language Understanding (NLU) as a Service (UaaS). It can be viewed as providing a "large" language Model in the style of GPT/3 and Google BERT but it currently cannot generate any language; it is strictly an Understanding Machine. And

B1. Self Improving AI

Self-improving AI is a meme that has been circulating since the 1980s. Current proponents of the idea include Boström and Omohundro. My own summary goes something like this: If we get any kind of AGI going, no matter how slow it is and how buggy it is, we can give

B2. The Wisdom Salon

Wisdom Salon is an online World Cafe. The World Cafe Protocol is a recipe for organizing "Conversations That Matter" on a large scale. Thousands of people can cooperate in order to bring clarity to complex issues

B3. Model Free AI

Don't Model the World - just Model the Mind. It's a lot easier. With some poetic freedom, I'd like to claim: 1. Model the World: ten billion lines of code 2. Model the Brain: ten million lines of code 3. Model the Mind: ten thousand lines of code #1 is

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B4. Corpus Congruence

Understanding in brains and machines can be defined and measured as Corpus Congruence. Corpus Congruence as a metric spans up almost all of NLP.

B5. Twitter's Forklift Upgrade

... manage to strike a popular balance between your freedom to say anything you want and my freedom not to have to hear it ...