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Revisiting the AGI Capability Roadmap

Revisiting the AGI Capability Roadmap

Three years ago I proposed a deep learning capability maturity model (see: A New Capability Maturity Model for Deep Learning ). Today I…
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The Language-Turn Metaphor and AGI

The Language-Turn Metaphor and AGI

The term linear in the traditions of mathematical programming and hence machine learning doesn’t have the same meaning as linear in the…
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Carlos E. Perez
How Human and Deep Learning Perception are Very Different

How Human and Deep Learning Perception are Very Different

How do we perceive the world? To understand this, let us explore how we incorrectly perceive the world. The ‘glitches in the matrix’ shall…
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The Origin of Creativity: Rote Adaptiveness

The Origin of Creativity: Rote Adaptiveness

‘Rote Adaptiveness’, the capability of automatically being adaptive seems like an oxymoron and is also not as well investigated. But this…
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Carlos E. Perez
The Futile Quest for Autonomous Intelligence

The Futile Quest for Autonomous Intelligence

Richard Sutton (of “The Bitter Lesson” fame) has a five to ten year plan for AI research The Alberta Plan for AI Research.
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HiveMinds and Artificial Intelligence

HiveMinds and Artificial Intelligence

Today we are seeing a new kind of information medium that will radically change society. This medium involves the fusion of hivemind…
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Carlos E. Perez
Retrospective from Deep Learning Predictions Made 4 Years Ago

Retrospective from Deep Learning Predictions Made 4 Years Ago

Progress in Deep Learning AI is very subtle, and it takes considerable effort to understand the trends. I used to come up with predictions…
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Peirce’s Triadic Thinking on Discovery and Design

Peirce’s Triadic Thinking on Discovery and Design

It’s not obvious why C.S.Peirce’s triadic thinking has utility. The ordering of concepts in firstness, secondness, and thirdness explains…
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Diffusion Models Are Like Episodic Memories

Diffusion Models Are Like Episodic Memories

Before humans invented computers, memory was already a metaphor. Memory is a process that is deeply embedded in our sense of being. It is…
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The Limits of Human Understanding

The Limits of Human Understanding

Let’s explore the meaning of “understanding” that gets thrown around liberally in cognitive science. Let’s look at two mechanical systems…
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Carlos E. Perez
Why Deep Learning Experimentalists Should Not Monopolize the Conversation About AGI

Why Deep Learning Experimentalists Should Not Monopolize the Conversation About AGI

Many dislike the deep learning community because it’s inhabited by bro culture and excessively analytic types. Not everyone in this…
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Carlos E. Perez
Code Duality in Diffusion and Transformers

Code Duality in Diffusion and Transformers

It’s been a few years since I was introduced to Hoffmeyer’s “code duality” in Biosemiotics. It’s frustrating to me that this metaphor is…
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Carlos E. Perez
Process Patterns, Loops and Emergence

Process Patterns, Loops and Emergence

Let’s talk about language and cognition. A Strange Loops is simply a self-recursive statement (i.e. “X generating X”). There are 3…
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Carlos E. Perez
Conceptual Blending and Composability

Conceptual Blending and Composability

I want to explore now the idea of Conceptual Blending, Dall-E, and language. Conceptual blending is a theory of cognition where concepts…
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Carlos E. Perez
Human Intelligence is Not Universal

Human Intelligence is Not Universal

Human cognition is not universal. The proof of this is that there are many peculiar traits of human thinking that it is blind to. The…
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Languages are Agential Matter

Languages are Agential Matter

Large language models are very strange things and linguistics must step up to the plate with explanations as to why they work the way they…
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