Intelligence and Thought
I have reached a point where the various social dilemmas (problems of my social life) and intellectual dilemmas (problems of … Continue reading Intelligence and Thought
On Thought
Let’s start with thought. That act of sequence generation, which it is most of the time considered the pinnacle of … Continue reading On Thought
A is for Assisted
I own an Amazon Echo, which gives me access to the voice assistant Alexa to use some of Amazon services. … Continue reading A is for Assisted
The Brain and the Signal
What sound does a tree falling in a forest make if no one is around to hear it? Answer: none, … Continue reading The Brain and the Signal
On Supervised Learning
I have recently come across comments from people working on machine and statistical learning referring to supervised learning as the … Continue reading On Supervised Learning
Rachael or the legitimacy of memory
It’s been already a few years since I play around in my head with the following situation. I imagine myself … Continue reading Rachael or the legitimacy of memory
On Morphology (and contra some current machine learning techniques)
I am currently working in a project that involves some sort of text mining and natural language processing (NLP). For … Continue reading On Morphology (and contra some current machine learning techniques)
Grammatical and Symbolic thoughts
“Having a thought does not mean having an internal representation that is a cleaned up version of the sentence any … Continue reading Grammatical and Symbolic thoughts
The Brain, the language machine
More and more I become convinced that the brain is a big language machine, and most of its function can … Continue reading The Brain, the language machine
The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Let me start by asking a controversial question: Can machines think? The question takes us back to Alan Turing’s seminal … Continue reading The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
The Thoughtist 