This is a mirror from https://jcbaillie.net/on-the-fundamental-limits-of-our-predictive-power/ Over the years that I spent reading and thinking about the nature of reality, and our ability to grasp it, I progressively accumulated some understanding of several core limits in our ability to make predictions over the future. By predictions, I mean mathematical or…

This is a mirror from https://www.jcbaillie.net/companies-governance-a-perspective-on-monopolies-and-competition/ In a free-market economy, a central tenet is that competition will enable the emergence of a balance of power between producers and consumers. If a producer keeps their prices too high, produces substandard products, or engages in practices that consumers generally disapprove of, then…

This is a mirror from https://jcbaillie.net/governance-models-from-virtual-to-real/ There is no doubt that great progress has been made in recent centuries, at least in many places in the world, in terms of governance, from slavery and archaic feudalism to modern forms of democracy. I do not think however that there would be…

In my previous articles, I articulated the case for going beyond deep learning in AI, and the importance of embodiment. There is no doubt that deep learning is an incredibly powerful tool that will play an important role in building intelligent machines. But deep learning is bound by its statistical…

Context: Dual Universe is an ambitious MMO project developed by Novaquark (see this other article for more background on the project origins). It offers players a never-before-seen Continuous Single-Shard experience, which allows a highly scalable number of concurrent players to interact with each other in one unique instance of the…

We live in exciting times. From rockets soon moving us towards Mars, to robots that can perform a backflip, AI getting better at diagnosing than the average doctor, and now with quantum computers, it feels as if many science-fiction fantasies are slowly moving out of fiction, and into the realm…

I’ve already mentioned in a previous article why I thought Deep Learning, while a fantastic technology, was not the whole story for AI. At least if we are talking about Artificial General Intelligence which aims at capturing the versatility and incredible flexibility of human intelligence. …