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Imagine, to misquote John Lennon. No information. And no computation too! It’s easy if you try … (So how can I Build an AI …).  Let me start Monday with a little bit of gentle heresy. You won’t get this from the usual fan-boy and fan-girl posts on AI or even the detractors. But that…

Quote from the Economist: “Techno-babble: Since the launch in November of ChatGPT, an artificially intelligent conversationalist, AI is seemingly all anyone can talk about. Corporate bosses too, cannot shut up about it. So far in the latest quarterly results season, executives at a record 110 companies in the S&P 500 index have brought up AI…

They said, make it simple! Ok, I just put this together over lunch, because I got the feedback that no eight year old or CEO could follow my last example post!  I want to describe this without using maths. The only nod to maths, is speaking about plotting a line on a graph that represents “Cartesian…

#OhWhatAtangledwebweweaveWhenfirstwepractisetodeceive! Which comes from the poem #Marmion, Canto 6, stanza 17, by #WalterScott; and has come to represent a more prosaic concept, that narrative can become complex and sometimes unmanageable. In this case I seek not to deceive, rather to weave a web to #enlighten, and I will be over time, pulling the threads of this web together.…

To build a little on my last post … what exactly is the issue with #PropositionalAttitudes such as the #belief#that the #icecream will #melt on this beautiful sunny day? I refer you to one of my favourite books on #AI and #cognitivescience, which is called “Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design (Language and Being)” by the Authors #TerryWinograd and #FernandoFloresfrom way back in 1986, based on #phenomenology…

I want to share a positive message with you. It comes from a poet, and reverberates down the years. But, tonight it has never been more true. As, #AI reflects us back at ourselves … And I quote:  “I’ll be your mirrorReflect what you are, in case you don’t knowI’ll be the wind, the rain, and the…

My buddy #SnoopDog came to me the other day for some #investment advice ;-). Just another day. For background you can search up: “Snoop Dog on #ARSTechnica” On that #California theme … I am thinking, and I quote the #MammasAndPappas (Search it up, as the kids say):  “All the leaves 🍁 are brown, and the sky is gray …California dreamin’ On such a winter’s day” Shall…

Let’s start with what we all know … right?  “#IThinkThereforeIAm” #ReneDescartes’ “#firstpersonperspective”. The implications of which may not be as straight forward and obvious as you might think. There is #Idealism, only mind exists and matter is an illusion! Or maybe mind sits apart from matter, but partially controls is. This is #Descartes; and the…

You can think of an #Ontology as being like a #Map! By way of #analogy if you think about the London #AtoZmap, and the #TubeMap, they are used for different #purposes, different #tasks, and they #represent the #world in slightly different ways. Sometimes you can find ways in which they #align#conceptually, and other times they don’t; and if you were to build some #software which sought to leverage these #representations they would work…

For #JabeOnAI – Let’s start with one of the themes I will keep returning to … the map is not the territory … (to learn more on that, you can “search up” #AlfredKorzbski )… So, to get us started. … A map is a representation … and one way or another … AI systems operate on representations … or…