While we instantaneously recognize a face as attractive, it is much harder to explain what exactly defines personal attraction. This suggests that attraction depends on implicit processing of complex, culturally and individually defined features. Generati... (more…)
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Inspired by both medieval siege engines and the recent release of Unity’s reinforcement learning SDK I taught a catapult to both identify, aim, and destroy a “missile” (in this case, a loving, rendered cylinder). The following post is full of fun gifs of... (more…)
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Back in March 2019, I built a hackathon project called AI Dungeon. The project was a classic text adventure game, with a twist. The text… (more…)
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is convinced that AI/AS development should be "aligned to humans in terms of our moral values and ethical principles." They present their ideas in a 136-paged framework document called Ethically Aligne...
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Debate between Yann LeCun and Gary Marcus at NYU, October 5 2017. Moderated by David Chalmers. Sponsored by the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness. (more…)
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