Synthetic Intelligence

Is AGI that complicated?

To start with, here is an example of quite a simple problem, which is surprisingly hard for many people to solve.

Action-first vs model-first

There is a broadly ignored aspect of reinforcement learning (or action-first approach in general): it’s…

Dialectic of AI: connectionism vs symbolism

The history of AI is a teeter-totter of symbolic versus…

Intelligence vs Cognition

The definition of intelligence is very vague and controversial. Often it’s defined in the context of human or at…

Don’t mix Agency with Intelligence

There is a widespread opinion on the importance of agency for any kind of intelligence. There are…

Necessary and sufficient conditions for the cortex-like representation