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The History—and Future—of Human Domestication
Domestication yields more than cute puppies and tasty chickens. It is neither strictly genetic nor exclusively a human endeavor. It has AI at its cards and challenges going feral as an alternative. A journey. Let’s take a trip down domestication-lane. But first a reminder what domestication is. Domestication refers to the process where humans adapt…
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Emergent Phenomena—A Universal Feature Worth Billions
The concept that connects the origin of life to Microsoft’s deal with OpenAI is an illusive one. Contradicting intuition and belief yet promising a sci-fi near-future One of the smartest people living among us is a 96-year-old professor named Noam Chomsky. He is a philosopher, a political thinker, some say an anarchist but first and…
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Building AI Intuition Through Terminology [Part 2 of 2]
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The many terms of AI, part 2. What you need for gossip, musing and talking-shop. Want the intuition-forming basics? Re-read part 1. In part 1 we discussed the core terms of AI for building intuition. What you need to know to grasp the fundamentals while avoiding the noise of the inner workings. But inner workings…
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Building AI Intuition Through Terminology [Part 1 of 2]
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Many terms circle AI. To build AI-intuition you need to internalize the first-tier terms in part 1. To gossip, muse and bore friends and family – head to part 2. Modernity is ignorance. We understand less of the things we use. Need fire? Who cares about spark, gas and plastic of a lighter. We do…
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Agriculture, Industrial Revolution, Anthills and RAGs
From the agricultural revolution to the digital age, language served us well. Clever use of AI technologies can take us where language limitations cannot. Riding Language from Agriculture to Enlightenment Human advancement is tightly coupled with technology. First – we extended what evolution equipped us at a certain period with the use of tools. We…
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Transformative vs. Fork Technologies
While it’s unlikely we will revert to candles, cassettes and film, not every new technology is transformative. Spotting forks amidst the glitter helps ground expectations and identify opportunities. The advancement of technology is perceived as a substituting process. A new technology emerges and after a period of maturation and adoption, it replaces the old ways…
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Closing the Mendelian Gap
A brief history of the theory of evolution, where it is lacking, my suggested solution and what it might mean for us. Or – how I lost all my readers on the account of arrogance This is the most audacious post I wrote to date. The claims below are, well, slightly beyond my field of…
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Using Existing Toolboxes to Solve Big Problems is Lazy
Throughout history humanity solved problems with the toolbox of its time. It caused delays of hundreds of years in progress. Abandoning old intuitions solved more than the original problem The fact we are living inside events is misleading. It is not the Matrix. It is the availability bias to blame. We think what we see…
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Nature, Capitalism, Ulysses, Regulation and… AI Sailors?
We think we have free will because we are naive humans. Capitalism is not naive though. To win against this evil-duo we need to look 3,000 years into the past – and on to the near future. Our brain and free will. What Nature leaves out of its resume Slow, heavily relying on genetics and…
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How to Tell If AI Will Kill Jobs and the One It Will Create
The Next Industrial Revolution? Maybe. A simple test from 1950 will tell us soon enough. And if so – what will all the jobless doctors, lawyers and programmers do? Here’s one suggestion. “Siri, are you going to take my job?” “I’m sorry, I do not want to answer this question. Is there anything else I…
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Objective vs Subjective AI and The Approach of AGI
Dinners, school pickups and ice cream talks have recently come down to “School WhatsApp group is too noisy” and “Elad, are we all going to die from AI?” Here’s my reply to the second most burning issue. AI does not seem to tire from being in the headlines. OpenAI released GPT-4o stealing the thunder from…
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Junk Food, Junk Attention
Being attracted to junk food is a feature turned bug. But nourishment is only one exploit being hacked, for which we are paying with our lives. Junk food by evolution Why we crave junk food (processed to have too much sugar, fat, salt) is fairly known. The short version is we are far from our…
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We Have Evolution to Blame
A million years of evolution brought us to the wrong place. It is to blame for much of our modern troubles Let’s take a short journey to a million years ago. Our ancestors, being hunter-gatherers, were troubling themselves with three things – food, protection (from the elements and from not becoming food) and making babies.…
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So Very Particular
I have a framework – or more a ladder – for thinking about communication. It contains the things that can communicate. It starts from the very small to the very artificial. I define communication as transferring data from one thing to another. I do not care if the communicating entities are of the same “kind”.…
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Skewed Thinking of Scale
We have a skewed thinking of scale. We live in a specific range and evolution optimized us to perceive it best for survival. We see things from almost a millimeter big to (depending on point and field of view) kilometers. And we perceive time in seconds to years. Our brains have adapted to reality at…
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Language is Outdated
We humans live in a world we are ill equipped for. We are “tooled” in terms of evolution for the Stone Age, but the modern environment we live in is more complex than a cave. Few examples – We crave sugar, salt and fat because it was hard obtaining them. We have cognitive biases which…