Category: The Algorithm

  • AI Racism 2024 : the Woke Google Gemini Scandal

    AI Racism 2024 : the Woke Google Gemini Scandal

    In case you missed it: On Feb 15 2024, Google quietly launched what is most probably the most advanced AI ever created by humanity (yes, in many ways, superior even to OpenAI’s GPT4). It is called Google Gemini Pro v1.5. It cost ~$2 billion to train. And it is racist as f*ck. In fact, it…

  • Attention is All You Need : The Beginning of AGI v1.0

    Attention is All You Need : The Beginning of AGI v1.0

    On Monday, June 12, 2017, there was a second shift in the Force. On that afternoon, Ashish Vaswani and his colleagues at Google uploaded a 1 megabyte PDF file, in that moment pre-publishing a seminal paper, playfully named “Attention is All you Need.” The paper outlined the basic Transformer model which has been at the…

  • AI Stock Trading +HFT : The Relentless Assault of the TraderBots

    AI Stock Trading +HFT : The Relentless Assault of the TraderBots

    Q&A with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, way back in the AI pre-history days of c. 2019 (OpenAI is thought to be one of the leading contenders of “who will birth the first AGI on Earth?”) AI 2025: All Your Markets Are Belong To Us Journalist: “OpenAI has just secured north of $10 billion in…

  • Computational Neuroscience 3000? AYFKM?

    Computational Neuroscience 3000? AYFKM?

    There’s a new sheriff in town, kids. Justs the other day, I learned of a new field of study, replete with PhD candidates and its own scholarly journal: Its called… wait for it: “computational neuroscience for AI minds.” The article was detailing the bizarre near-total opacity of the AI brain and how scientists were working…