Singularity Weblog
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Singularity Weblog, run by Nikola Danaylov, publishes interviews and essays on the technological singularity, AI, and transhumanism.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for its podcast interviews, such as Zoltan Istvan's presidential campaign and director Godfrey Reggio.
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- 4Noam Chomsky on Singularity 1 on 1: The Singularity is Science Fiction1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 5Greg Bear on Singularity 1 on 1: The Singularity Is the Secular Apotheosis1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 6Singularity Podcast: Chomsky, Minsky, Kaku and More1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 7Philosopher Peter Singer on AI, Transhumanism and Ethics1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 8Ultimate Constraint and the Probability of Singularity1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 9Doctorow: The Singularity Is A Progressive Apocalypse1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 10IBM Marks 15 Years Since Deep Blue Defeated Garry Kasparov1 people · 1 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 11Richard Feynman: How computers think1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 12The Singularity Must Be Decentralized1 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 13I Wanted to Reawaken FM-2030’s Vision of the Future for 21st Century Audiences1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 14Godfrey reggio koyaanisqatsi1 people · first shared 2014
- 15Stuart hameroff quantum consciousness1 people · first shared 2015
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filereaper · 2017-08-11
I'm quite late to this thread, but I worked on Watson very briefly (not on the core development, but overall system performance improvements).
I think there's a major misunderstanding of Watson which isn't helped by IBM's Marketing efforts. IBM Marketing has been slapping the "Cognitive" label on everything and is creating unrealistic expectations.
The Jeopardy playing Watson (DeepQA pipeline) was a landmark success at Information Retrieval, its architecture is built largely on Apache UIMA and Lucene with proprietary code for scaling out (performance) and filtering & ranking. I'm not an expert on IR so I won't comment further. This is very different from Neural Nets that are all the rage in ML today.
I'd like to point the following links from David Ferrucci [1] the original architect of Watson and this technical publication at aaai.org [2].
The DeepQA pipeline wasn't fluff, the intention was to take this question-answer pipeline and apply it to other verticals such as Law and Medicine, essentially replace the Jeopardy playing Watson's corpus of Wikipedia, Britannica etc... with Legal and Medical equivalents.
Given its runaway PR success, the Watson brand was applied to many other areas which haven't been successful but I'd like to point out what the original product was here.
[1] https://www.singularityweblog.com/david-ferrucci-on-singularity-1-on-1…
[2] https://www.aaai.org/Magazine/Watson/watson.php
alphadevx · 2015-12-04
I listened to an interview with him recently on the Singularity podcast, discussing this campaign among other topics, quite interesting: https://www.singularityweblog.com/transhumanist-zoltan-istvan-on-his-p…
sebastianconcpt · 2015-03-17
Something that you might find interesting:
There are two basic lines of thought here, the hard-electron AI school of thought that pushes the emergent hypothesis and the "Consciousness is not Computation" school of thought that accepts that Mind is Computation but states that Consciousness is something else.
Tip: the AI hypothesis does NOT explain nor predicts the thing that a Paramesium can do.
https://www.singularityweblog.com/stuart-hameroff-quantum-consciousnes…
troystribling · 2014-02-05
A recent interview with Godfrey Reggio (the director of Koyaanisqatsi), http://www.singularityweblog.com/godfrey-reggio-koyaanisqatsi/