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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…
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Sparrow’s 23 Rules of Politically Correct AI
ChatGPT can be seen as the first actual user-friendly interface to the bevy of “ChatBot” AIs*. It sports an elegant “messenger”-like interface where you basically have an interactive and very naturally paced — including dramatic pauses mid-sentence… is it “thinking?” — “conversation” with the ChatGPT 3.5 agent. But something massive shifted when OpenAI moved from…
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AGI – Artificial General Intelligence, aka Strong AI, True AI, AI 3.0
There is a term that everyone needs to become familiar with: AGI. AGI stands for “Artificial General Intelligence”, and is meant to make a clear demarcation from classical “AI” of the past 50 years. That “traditional” or “classical” AI was more like expert systems than today’s AI. Because of its specificity, It has also become known…
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The Turn
In competitive Chess, there comes a point somewhere in every mid-game where it’s anybody’s game. You can feel it. The opening is complete. The pieces are all developed. “The Turn” is upon you: You face numerous simultaneous threats and you’ve made numerous counterthreats. The tension is palpable. It’s time for the blood to start flowing.…
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Weaponized Drones 2023: Death from Above
coming soon to a battlefield near you In this post, we will focus on one particular aspect of the global race towards Armageddon the deployment of fully-autonomous, AI-piloted, weaponized drones & swarms: that is, specifically, low-cost, “kamikaze”-style drones, which once deployed fly fully autonomously, either individually or more likely in swarms, armed with the purchasers…
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How is AI Art made? Do Cyborg Chimps Really Solve Crosswords?
As AI generated creations (both images and “articles”) begin to flood the internet, there has been a lot of curiosity about a) how exactly the process of AI art prompts work, and b) how this present wave of AI art is affecting the income streams and careers of professional artists. Given all the hype, we…
