Tag: Artificial intelligence
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Convolutional network (again)
With time on my hands I have returned to working on an old project – attempting to build a convolutional network that will solve chess puzzles. (A convolutional network is a type of neural network – a modelled ‘artificial intelligence’ that can be used to detect patterns or undertake similar tasks.) Here I am not…
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Even more about neural networks
Because I essentially got it wrong in the last post … turns out that a fully connected network is, generally, not a great idea for image processing and that partial connections – through “convolution layers” are likely to be more efficient. And my practical experience backs this up: my first NN did, in effect, have…
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Let’s talk about sex (dolls)
I’m not all that interested in sex dolls, actually. But what I am interested in is the reactions they provoke from people when they consider the nature of intelligence. My view – pretty much that followed by Alan Turing in his pioneering paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” – from which we get the “imitation game”…
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The opportunities of AI
Embed from Getty Images A computer program – AlphaGo – has now beaten the world’s greatest Go player and another threshold for AI has been passed. As a result a lot of media commentary is focusing on threats – threats to jobs, threats to human security and so on. But what about the opportunities? Actually,…
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The intelligent computer has arrived
At least, that is the claim being made by the University of Reading and it seems to have some credibility – as a computer entered into their annual “Turing Test” appears to have passed – convincing a third of the judges that it was a human and not a machine. This definition of intelligence relies…
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Turing versus Rosenberg
Perhaps this would be better on my book review site, but it’s really a question of science, prompted by reading the challenging The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions. My issue with the book is not atheism but the essential claim of the author – Alex Rosenberg – that human beings cannot reason…
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Unreal Tournament at the forefront of AI research (really)
I am not much of a computer games player, but I do have a fondness for Unreal Tournament– a network shoot-em-up game at which I have always been hopeless if enthusiastic (though I’ve not played for a few years now). So I was pleasantly surprised to read that Unreal is now, according to the New…
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Google wants your voice
Google’s director of research, Peter Norvig, has told New Scientist that one of the reasons they launched their audio service, Google Voice, (not available in the UK or maybe not anywhere out of the US) is that they needed more human voice data to perfect their algorithms. (The article is not online for non-subscribers yet,…
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