[FRIAM] Digital Companies or institutions in Santa Fe?

2023-05-09 Thread Tom Johnson
Can any locals suggest other high-level companies (e.g. Simtable) or institutions (e.g. SFI) in Santa Fe? Jon, what's the outfit you used to work for or maybe still do? Ed and Steve, do you know of any? Thanks, Tom -- Tom Johnson - t...@jtjohnson.com

[FRIAM] Paxton's stages as a dynamical system

2023-05-09 Thread Jochen Fromm
In Putin's speech on victory day today he argued that Russia is again fighting against fascism while the country clearly shows increasingly signs of fascism itself: from the angry dictator and the dread of the nation's decline under the corrosive effects of individualistic liberalism to the

Re: [FRIAM] selective optimism

2023-05-09 Thread glen
I would have said https://arxiv.org/. People were kinda freaking out over pre-prints during the advent of covid19. But sheesh. The citation rate for pre-pints in ai is staggering. Were one on the red team, they might langchain gpt4, bard, et al into a collaborative team submitting, say, a

Re: [FRIAM] selective optimism

2023-05-09 Thread Pieter Steenekamp
Are we just a blip on the radar of evolving intelligence? Like, in a few hundred years, will some super-smart robot be looking back at us and saying, "Oh yeah, those primitive humans, they were our ancestors!" I mean, imagine if we create these AI beings and they just roll their eyes at us like

Re: [FRIAM] selective optimism

2023-05-09 Thread Roger Critchlow
My reaction to the prepper revelation was to seriously question his rationality. Maybe he's just prepping because the other styles of conspicuous consumption didn't appeal to him. Maybe he's running OpenAI because it was the most prestigious gig he could get. Doesn't really have a rational bone

Re: [FRIAM] selective optimism

2023-05-09 Thread glen
IDK. I still haven't read the Dawn of Everything ... or much of anything from that domain at all. But this article tweaked me: Revealed: modern humans needed three tries – and 12,000 years – to colonise Europe

Re: [FRIAM] selective optimism

2023-05-09 Thread Gary Schiltz
What David said. On Tue, May 9, 2023 at 8:49 AM Prof David West wrote: > The opinion of an "advanced layman." > > I claim the status because my Computer Science MS was in AI. My first > professional publication was in *AI Magazine*, then the journal of record > for the discipline. I have

Re: [FRIAM] selective optimism

2023-05-09 Thread glen
Yes. The point of quoting the part of the article I quoted, as Marcus noted, Altman exhibits 2 conflicting behaviors: 1) optimism about AI and 2) prepping for apocalypse. One *could* give him the benefit of the doubt. People are complex. He's extracted plenty of rent from the earth. So why not

Re: [FRIAM] selective optimism

2023-05-09 Thread Prof David West
The opinion of an "advanced layman." I claim the status because my Computer Science MS was in AI. My first professional publication was in *AI Magazine*, then the journal of record for the discipline. I have appeared on panels with Herbert Simon, Marvin Minsky, and Herbert Dreyfus at AI

Re: [FRIAM] selective optimism

2023-05-09 Thread Tom Johnson
It doesn't have to be either/or. I suspect most likely a mix of the two will evolve as is the case with the whole Digital Revolution. TJ === Tom Johnson Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, New Mexico 505-577-6482 === On Mon, May 8, 2023, 9:43 PM Pieter