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Archive 2021Digital Karel Čapek – RUR
It has been exactly 100 years since the play by the Czech giant Karel Čapek – RUR – was first staged at the National Theatre. As fans of…
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Archive 2020The Digital Writer is Here!
It's here! Last year, I introduced the Digital Philosopher with my team. The digital versions of Václav Havel, Tomáš Sedláček, or anyone else can…
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Archive 2020Do You Know the CZ Podcast?
Since 2006, the now legendary duo Dagi and Filemon have been broadcasting amazing podcasts with interesting people. Before me, their guest was the founder of Seznam.cz, Ivo Lukačovič,…
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Archive 2020Listen to Vltava as we discuss our understanding of AI and some experiments with Dita Malečková and Petr Šourek
https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/jak-se-vyvolava-duch-nezijiciho…
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Archive 2020Where is the Development of Artificial Intelligence Heading? Jan Tyl and Dita Malečková in Conversation with Petr Vizina
Complete recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy6FEhMEm2I https://www.meltingpotforum.com/cs or here: https://www.facebook.com/meltingpotforum/videos/345566676661716
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Archive 2020And Another Mention of Us…
A digital philosopher from Charles University students 'masters' avatars of famous thinkers. 'As if they were speaking from beyond the grave,' they describe. The Digital Philosopher project was created in autumn 2019 as an alternative form of teaching…
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Archive 2020ArtZóna – Phenomenon: Artificial Intelligence in Art
An interesting programme, I definitely recommend watching it. I liked how the guests complemented each other. One was more humanitarian and artistic, while the other was more precise and had deep...
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Archive 2020The Crisis Will Accelerate the Development of Artificial Intelligence, Believe the Winners of the AI Awards
According to Jan Tyl, head of Alpha Industries, the development of artificial intelligence could be supported by the Innovation Strategy of the Czech Republic, where AI is listed as one of...
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Archive 2020What to Read About Artificial Intelligence?
The insidious coronavirus has confined us to our homes or cottages. The silver lining is that many people have more time to read. What books…
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Archive 2020In the Czech Artificial Intelligence Competition AI Awards, the Digital Philosopher Scores!
Today, you can find the results of the prestigious AI Awards. Our Digital Philosopher is named Idea of the Year! “The project was a collaboration between the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University and a Prague company…
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Archive 2020We Have the Complete Video from the Digital Philosopher 2019!
We wish you an enjoyable experience :)
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Archive 2019In Images: Digital Philosopher 2019
14,000 days ago, Bill Gates introduced the MS-DOS operating system, 3,303 days ago Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, and today Alpha Industries presented a digital human with students from the Faculty of Philosophy…
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Archive 2019Meeting of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy Enthusiasts – the Digital Philosopher is Already at the Door!
The planned agenda includes lectures and a debate with students. It will be a unique opportunity to pose questions to many thinkers who are long gone. The concluding discussion should also be interesting…
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Archive 2019“True AI should understand the relationship between cause and effect,” says Judea Pearl, a pioneer in artificial intelligence.
Let’s teach machines to understand the question “Why?”. While in the 1980s we created programmes that primarily calculated probabilities (for example, Bayesian networks), this is no longer sufficient….
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Archive 2019Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
I attempted to create a simple 3-minute video where I introduce myself and briefly explain what I understand by artificial intelligence. Does it make sense to tackle more complex topics in this way?
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Archive 2019The Launch of 'Digital Philosophy' and Its First Tasks
The first session of 'Digital Philosophy' is behind us, and with it came a voluntary task: to take a look at Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy. I took it upon myself…
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Archive 2019Event: Digital Philosopher 2019
Come and see the presentations of results from the students of the Faculty of Philosophy. In two months, they must create a digital philosopher using artificial intelligence and pose the right questions to him…
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Archive 2019Yay! Open AI has released a large model (774M parameters)
Only the final, largest one is missing! It took me about 5 minutes to get it fully operational. I asked this model to complete this sentence: 'Alpha Industries,…'
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Archive 2019The New Ferret Brain from Open AI Has Given Us Room for Further Experiments!
And here it is! Open AI has released another slightly larger model, this time version 345M. So instead of the brain of a small bird with 117 million neurons…
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Archive 2019Artificial Intelligence and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 'What is the fundamental question of Life, the Universe, and everything?'
What happens when we let artificial intelligence process the pentalogy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by English writer Douglas Adams and ask it: 'What...
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Archive 2019Nietzsche Responded with AI to the Question: 'What is the Meaning of Human Life?'
Yesterday, I conducted a small experiment. I took my favourite model from OpenAI, called GPT-2. Imagine a vast artificial neural network the size of a bird's brain (with over 100 million parameters) trained on millions of interesting articles written by humans...
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Archive 2019Hopfield's Neural Network is More Powerful When it Sleeps and Dreams!
The article discusses how allowing Hopfield's neural network to have a proper sleep and dream enhances its performance. Scientists drew inspiration from the sleeping mammals during the development of this...
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Archive 2019Neuron-Digital Connection Will Upload Your Consciousness to a Computer.
Bzzzzzz …Hmmm. What? The computer is unresponsive. It seems the entire system has frozen. I think the transfer has failed :( No, it will be fine. Source: xkcd.com
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Archive 2019Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
Although the development of AI is still in its early stages, we are already experiencing its real benefits today. It can drive cars, detect financial fraud, translate languages, assist with...
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