Probably you’ve heard about reinforcement learning in conversations on AI. It originates from psychology and animal behaviourism, like so many other parts of the field of AI (neural networks and temporal differences are two others), while others touch philosophical issues and conundrums humans have pondered on for centuries. Brian Christian, like Johan Harri, travels the world to interview lots of people about how to get machines to understand and obey humans.
Tag: Artifical Intelligence
On long, hard thoughts
Right now The Ezra Klein Show has a series of podcast episodes on artificial intelligence (just like early 2023). Yesterday I listened to the discussion with Nilay Patel (of course I recommend it). Among the things they discussed was how hard thinking was at risk of being discarded with the introduction of A.I. programs such as ChatGPT 4 or Claude.
Book review: Quantum Supremacy
Lately, I’ve become interested in quantum computing and wrote a short paper on the subject, combining the search for quantum computers and equality. As a brief introduction I bought Michio Kaku’s new book.After some initially wild assertions Michio Kaku delves into the real stuff: quantum theory and quantum mechanics and it gets exciting!