Month: August 2020

Thinking Bottom-Up

Humans (and all other brain-having organisms) interact with the world in a hierarchical manner, starting from the top and working down. When we decide to engage in an action, we make the decision at the highest level (for example, deciding to write a blog post), and then break up that action into its lower level …

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Refuting Bostrom’s Orthogonality Thesis

From its inception, the field of artificial intelligence has separated program specification into two key concepts: “goals” and “intelligence”. The “goal” is the problem a program or agent must solve; “intelligence” is the means by which it solves it. For example, the goal might be to play chess, and the intelligence might be a neural …

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