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Inspired by https://github.com/dsw/proquint and https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/proquints.html, a little snippet to generate a proquint from a 16-bit unsigned short.

Chatty language models have now digested the whole Internet and they can cough it up on demand, sliced and diced to your liking, or even verbatim if you know how to ask. This is a… Read More »The “new AI” and “nouvelle AI”

Part of a research proposal developed in Summer 2020, provided here for interest and amusement. Back in January 1980, the eighth part of Douglas Adams’ radio play “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” debuted on… Read More »The Total Perspective Vortex

I’ve been putting together a page that collates the work I’ve done on 3DRC, including some more recent analysis. It’s a work-in-progress and might remain so perennially, but I’ve made it available here anyway 🙂… Read More »New 3DRC work

A short proposal I made as part of a research fellowship application to an institute in Japan in Summer 2020. Modern agriculture is dominated by industrial farming methods that are heavily and increasingly reliant on… Read More »Could we make ecobots?

Yes, the Royal Institution podcast recently published the audio recording of the discussion we had last year in London about the future of Artificial, perhaps General, Intelligence: https://soundcloud.com/royal-institution/a-generalist-ai-ri-science-podcast-45

It’s not so hard, though the gscript has to be published as a web app. Write the doGet function to retrieve the URL of the file in Drive, then return a small script that redirects… Read More »How to use gscript to choose a random file from a Google Drive folder, and open it?

It’s amazing! I was invited to be part of a panel discussion on Artificial General Intelligence which took place yesterday. Quite a thrilling experience to be in the Royal Institution, talking about a subject I… Read More »What’s the Royal Institution like?

I wrote an article recently that commented on research by Nasr et al (link) that showed a machine learning engine discovering a sense of number: AI develops human-like number sense – taking us a step… Read More »What does it mean to discover numbers?

Yes! It’s called Stoke-on-Tech and has a monthly-ish meeting at the wonderful Mitchell Arts Centre with free pizza, free beer, and most excitingly, free talks from inspiring speakers (although they did also suffer me doing… Read More »Is there a vibrant tech community in Stoke?