Today's pseudoscience is often tomorrow's scientific paradigm shift. The trick is knowing what is simply insane, and what is insanely ahead of its time.
"It's somewhat comedic to watch the ML community rediscover key insights the Alife & Evolutionary Computation communities had back in the 1980s and Alan Turing back in the 1940s" - @samim
"IMHO it is impossible to keep up with current literature and learn all the history given the firehose of the last years. We are missing historians that can create easily accessible digests of what happened in earlier decades." - @cmarschner
"This is true. Perspective wants to be expensive. A substantial part of my job is often connecting the past dots, identifying "adjacent possibles" and constructing a grounded future narrative." - @samim
Peculiar how much energy is going into questions around AI Agency & rights. Its comedic if you consider how little agency/rights we attribute to all forms of animals & plants around us, that arguably are much more intelligent, creative & essential than any piece of AI code.
An in-depth article about the legal implications of AI generated art:
https://itsartlaw.com/2018/11/26/welcome-to-the-machine/
Concept of the day: "Managed Serendipity". #Ideas
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi in Irving Good (1962)
The notion that "the better our simulation/model of reality is, the better/clear reality will become" is a kindergarten level fallacy.
Virtually working with teams spread across continents / timezones on high cognitive load / creative tasks, shows the limits of our current communication tooling very fast. There is a sizeable opportunity for innovation in this area.
Team Work Best Practice: the teams outputs must be entertaining to the team.
Selling property in latent spaces is a fascist agenda.
Generative IP is end stage madness.
"Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful" - George Box
Contemporary Technology: 95% Storytelling, 5% Technology. That's good news!
"Functional Ambiguity is very important to design meaningful experiences" - From a conversation today with @MendelKaelen
If GAN-Art has proven anything, it is that Humans can have a strong emotional reaction to a statical distribution - to the point of suspending disbelieve and irrationally attributing creative agency to a tensor of numbers. Magical thinking in age of AI?
Toke me years to internalize this: Relaxation > Imagination + Will > Creativity > Realization > "Thing"
"Power comes from flow > flow comes from relaxation & harmony" - QiGong
All machines which humans teach to learn, should learn to teach humans.