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In Images: Digital Philosopher 2019Archive 2019
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In 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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Meeting of Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy Enthusiasts – the Digital Philosopher is Already at the Door!Archive 2019
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Meeting 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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“True AI should understand the relationship between cause and effect,” says Judea Pearl, a pioneer in artificial intelligence.Archive 2019
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“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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Introduction to Artificial IntelligenceArchive 2019
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Introduction 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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The Launch of 'Digital Philosophy' and Its First TasksArchive 2019
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The 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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Event: Digital Philosopher 2019Archive 2019
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Event: 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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Yay! Open AI has released a large model (774M parameters)Archive 2019
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Yay! 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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The New Ferret Brain from Open AI Has Given Us Room for Further Experiments!Archive 2019
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The 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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Artificial Intelligence and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 'What is the fundamental question of Life, the Universe, and everything?'Archive 2019
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Artificial 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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Nietzsche Responded with AI to the Question: 'What is the Meaning of Human Life?'Archive 2019
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Nietzsche 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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Hopfield's Neural Network is More Powerful When it Sleeps and Dreams!Archive 2019
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Hopfield'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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Neuron-Digital Connection Will Upload Your Consciousness to a Computer.Archive 2019
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Neuron-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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Artificial Intelligence and EthicsArchive 2019
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Artificial 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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Gamers Unknowingly Helped China Build a Supermodern Police System Using Artificial IntelligenceArchive 2019
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Gamers Unknowingly Helped China Build a Supermodern Police System Using Artificial Intelligence

The world today brings many surprises. Computer gamers have always demanded excellent performance from their machines and the most faithful representation of increasingly demanding games. The willingness...

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