Tony is a Geek

I've been here before, but I think I was a bit too early.... http://tonyisageek.blogspot.com/2017/05/babies-first-computer-quantum.html However, I'm pretty sure that this is the place to start to move over into. If you think about the limitations we have today in relation to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, it's a bit like looking at the limitations of the horse&cart and having the vision to see the Quantum Sports car ( okay, not the best evolutionary step, but a vision none the less ) During my day job, I've seen a lot of people working away delivering various Machine Learning services, such as " chat bots ".  They are all super excited that they are going to really make a difference and help out their fellow human beings to "get things done". Then they release their baby into the wild and well, it gets a whole lot of abuse and gets condemned for being "dumb", for not being able to do the "simplest of thi...

Baby Driver is a good movie, but this is not what this article is about.... I extracted the bits that I thought were eye-opening from the following article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-09-07/this-startup-is-making-virtual-people-who-look-and-act-impossibly-real Soul Machines wants to produce the first wave of likeable, believable virtual assistants that work as customer service agents and breathe life into hunks of plastic such as Amazon.com’s Echo and Google Inc.’s Home.  https://www.soulmachines.com/ .... .... Mark Sagar’s approach on this front may be his most radical contribution to the field. Behind the exquisite faces he builds are unprecedented biological models and simulations. When BabyX smiles, it’s because her simulated brain has responded to stimuli by releasing a cocktail of virtual dopamine, endorphins, and serotonin into her system. This is part of Sagar’s larger quest, using AI to reverse-engineer how humans work. He wants to get to ...

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/ibm-and-mit-ai-partnership/ "This work is undeniably promising, but it’s a simple evolution of the hardware we have today. Another, more dramatic option is the use of a quantum computer  to explore the potential of an A.I. Such research is still in its earliest conceptual stages, but the enormous computational power of a large-scale universal quantum computer seems likely to inspire a major leap in our understanding. MIT’s lab will have access to IBM Q , the company’s flagship quantum project. Recently updated to a 20-qubit processor , an even more impressive 50-qubit version on the horizon – hardware that will surely be a real gamechanger when it’s possible to use it to its full potential. This avenue of research is set to be a two-way street. Machine learning will be used to help advance research into quantum hardware, and the results will help scientists push the boundaries of machine learning. ..... The MIT-IBM Wa...

Just like buses, you wait for ages and none come....then they all start to come at once.  Same with these posts! Right, this is something very close to my heart (and brain - pun intended!).  I want/need to sign up to this as soon as I can be a donor. CLICK HERE FOR THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE Here is a TED talk on "ems" - machines that emulate human brains and can think, feel and work just like the brains they're copied from. Yes, copy of your brain.  This is awesome (well, probably scary for a lot of people thinking of the negatives), but I want to be Clone#7.  I digress. Economist and social scientist Robin Hanson describes a very possible (near) future when EMS take over the global economy, running on superfast computers and copying themselves to multitask, leaving humans with only one choice: to retire, forever! Come and glimpse a strange future as Hanson describes what could happen if robots ruled the earth. As I say, where can I sign up to trials ...