Critics of AI risk suggest diminishing returns to computing (formalized asymptotically) means AI will be weak; this argument relies on a large number of questionable premises and ignoring additional resources, constant factors, and nonlinear returns to sm... (more…)

In which we get out the magic wand and begin our specification of shared language-modifying abuctive reasoning, aka "learning". This will drive architecture and code later. (more…)

Photographer Jomppe Vaarakallio has been a professional retoucher for 30 years, but he's never seen anything quite like this before. While working on an... (more…)

Introducing the Nooscope, a diagram that shows how Machine Learning works and how it fails... (more…)

A series of advances in AI is giving investigators a new edge in the hunt for serial killers both old and current. (more…)