Kasper Jordaens

AlphaGo (and its successor AlphaZero), which beat the best humanity has to offer at the ancient, beguiling game of Go by employing seemingly alien strategies. After hundreds of years of study by human masters, AI found solutions no one had ever thought of.

model-agnostic meta-learning, or MAML, it trains a model using two machine-learning processes, one nested inside the other.[...] setting his AI the challenge of learning more than one task led it to come up with its own version of a sparse model that outperformed human-designed ones.

GPT-3 raises many philosophical questions. Some are ethical. Should we develop and deploy GPT-3, given that it has many biases from its training, it may displace human workers, it can be used for deception, and it could lead to AGI? I’ll focus on some issues in the philosophy of mind. Is GPT-3 really intelligent, and in what sense? Is it conscious?... See more

An interesting cause of spurious content is what we informally refer to as "reference collisions": contexts where a single word may reference multiple concepts (like an eggplant emoji), and an unintended concept is generated. The line between benign collisions (those without malicious intent, such as "A person eating an eggplant") and those involvi... See more

If AI starts to generate intelligence by itself, there’s no guarantee that it will be human-like. Rather than humans teaching machines to think like humans, machines might teach humans new ways of thinking.

Machines learn to recognize increasingly com-plex patterns in data that humans are not able to detect. All this raises thefollowing question: to what extent are machine perception and patternrecognition mechanisms relevant for “aesthetic perception,” and what are thetypically human aspects of aesthetic sensibility that still need to be tackledby ar... See more

His point is that if intelligence as we know it resulted from the mindless mutation of genes over countless generations, why not seek to replicate the intelligence-producing process—which is arguably simpler—rather than intelligence itself?

I may be an avid consumer of ac-tion movies and yet consider arthouse films aesthetically superior, eventhough I watch them more rarely. Artificial systems that gather data abouthuman aesthetic consumption should take these issues into consideration ifwe want to avoid overly simplistic models of human aesthetic experienceand judgment