Matt recently equipped himself with VR equipment. He was interested in what this technology could do for his research in neuroscience. One day, I came around his place to catch-up, and I tried it. There…
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Meaning Crisis and Cognitive Science
Meaning Crisis and Cognitive Science We watched episode 26 of the meaning crisis together. Some things I enjoyed (not a summary)
Meaning and Making
“Modern archaeology seeks for early evidence of human humanity in three areas of activity 1. artistic expression 2. religious practice and 3. tool making. These areas, it could be argued, take equal precedents in defining…
AI Revolution Conference Notes
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AI Today and a Vision for the Future
Key points Amazing how much of the conversation was about following intuition / looking for the right questions / experimenting and converging. Aligns fully with the non-objective search.
AI Use Cases
Generative AI is not the same as retrieval
Excellent insights and conclusions by Alex Powell from a recent AI event: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/conference-notes-bcs-search-solutions-2023-alexander-powell-mbcs-spuxe
Creativity as a Search
It’s useful to think of achievement as a process of discovery – as if searching through all the possibilities for the one we want. Not like searching for a sock in the laundary, but more…
Creating vs Creating for a living
This article overlaps with many of the things we’re trying to understand and reconcile. “The first, obvious answer is that people don’t want simply to create, but to make a living creating, to create as…
Heuristics
From Margaret Boden A heuristic is a form of productive laziness. In other words, it is a way of thinking about a problem which follows the paths most likely to lead to the goal, leaving…