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Engineer and applied scientist. Interested primarily in cognitive science and cognitive robotics - Grounded Cognition, Extreme Interaction, Embodied Cognition, Situated Cognition, computational learning.
Joined Nov 2022
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What if AI doesn’t just keep getting better forever?
New reports highlight fears of diminishing returns for traditional LLM training.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/what-if-ai-doesnt-just-keep-getting-better-forever/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike
FrontierMath's difficult questions remain unpublished so that AI companies can't train against it.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/new-secret-math-benchmark-stumps-ai-models-and-phds-alike/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Teen in critical condition with Canada’s first human case of H5 bird flu
The teen had no clear exposures to animals. No contacts have tested positive.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/11/teen-in-critical-condition-with-canadas-first-human-case-of-h5-bird-flu/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Tesla recalls Cybertrucks for faulty inverter, the 6th recall this year
Owners of the affected trucks will require replacement hardware.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/11/tesla-recalls-cybertrucks-for-faulty-inverter-the-6th-recall-this-year/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Tiny oceanic plankton adapted to warming during the last ice age, but probably won’t survive future climate change – new study https://theconversation.com/tiny-oceanic-plankton-adapted-to-warming-during-the-last-ice-age-but-probably-wont-survive-future-climate-change-new-study-243317?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ClimateChange
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#Bitcoin - The whole market is up and #crypto has a high beta. This makes #crypto a very risky asset. When everyone else gets rich, you get even richer. And when markets crash, you are even worse off - just when you may need money most, chart @AllisonSchrager https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-12/trump-win-doesn-t-completely-explain-the-bitcoin-bubble
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One of Trump's biggest promises was to address the rising cost of living. But will he do anything to challenge the main source of high prices — corporations who have gobbled up their competitors and now have enough market power to keep prices high even as their costs have dropped? Of course not.
Corporate monopolies get rich, and we pay the tab. Keep the receipts.
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IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware
Incremental improvements across the hardware and software stacks add up.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/ibm-boosts-the-amount-of-computation-you-can-get-done-on-quantum-hardware/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Matt Gaetz as AG is laughable if it weren't so horrific and dangerous https://robertreich.substack.com/p/matt-gaetz-as-ag-is-laughable-if?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Progress.
But, until someone holds the government of Alberta accountable, Canada will not reach its own reduction targets.
query re role-filler representation as a sensorimotor program and sensory prediction from running the program
Barsalou (https://www.barsaloulab.org/Online_Articles/2008-Barsalou-ARP-grounded_cognition.pdf) claims that there is growing empirical evidence in Cognitive Science that supports Grounded Cognition (embodiment, situatedness) while there is no empirical evidence supporting amodal symbols in cognition. Supporting Brooks thesis.
(last one) This thread gives some insight into the research into sensorimotor interactions and cognitive robotics. Covers a lot of topics with some interesting references.
[side note: There are many rabbit holes to dive into in cognitive science/robotics/AI. Easy to get lost. The relationship between cognitive science and cognitive robotics (AI) is largely conceptual as the physiological mechanisms of human cognition, particularly for higher level cognition, are not understood].
You might find the work of Rodney Brooks (professor emeritus MIT) interesting. One of his contributions to robotics was identifying the significance of sensorimotor interactions (Behavior-based robotics) and the need for distributed local control (subsumption architecture).
The "Grounded Cognition" model does not explain abstract thinking ("intelligence"). Abstract thinking would include language. In later writing Barsalou conceded that higher cognition is likely "amodal". Even so, the process of transformation from sensorimotor interaction into amodal symbols remains a mystery.
GC hasn't caught on in cognitive robotics. Generally I have found that the research area of "embodied cognition" ("embodied robotics") implicitly includes "situational cognition" and is thus very similar to GC.
I prefer the GC model as it is more explicit and precise in its terminology. But GC doesn't appear to have caught on, even in Cognitive Science (not sure about psychology).
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“According to #Barsalou (2008), #GroundedCognition refers to the belief that simulations within specific sensory systems, bodily states, and situated action mediate all cognitive processing.”
@hasmis O&G extraction accounts for a whopping...wait for it...6% of Canada's GDP.
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“Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights.”
(Anonymous)
Engineer and applied scientist. Interested primarily in cognitive science and cognitive robotics - Grounded Cognition, Extreme Interaction, Embodied Cognition, Situated Cognition, computational learning.
Joined Nov 2022
