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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…