The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
Test Information Space
NeurIPS Poster Large Language Models' Expert-level Global History Knowledge Benchmark (HiST-LLM)
'ELIZA,' the world's 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code
What Adorno Can Still Teach Us
He Was a Genius for the Ages. Can We Give Him a Break?
Jimmy Carter's Consequential 4 Years
(That was quite an administration. Tech and all. The returning one claims to know the ropes this time. So, when does AI pass the engineering exams?)
What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know. | Quanta Magazine
To Whom Does the World Belong? - Boston Review
How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci - Michael Gelb
The Surprising Source of Shakespeare’s Inspiration | Harvard’s Stephen Greenblatt
(One may get a sense that these videos herald AIs that will be hawking their positions as agents alongside the checkout aisle. If they do not already own the place. Speaking of cargo cult.)
Mechanized minds: AI's hidden impact on human thought
WWW Foundation Shut Down
Massachusetts is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution with statewide events
Chomsky, N. (1956). Three models for the description of language. IRE Transactions on information theory, 2(3), 113-124.
A.I. ‐ Humanity's Final Invention?
Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations - Office of the Historian
Explore new augmented reality features in Google Maps
Six Decades of Computer Science at Harvard | Harvard Magazine
Sandberg, A. (2023). The Lifespan of Civilizations: Do Societies “Age,” or Is Collapse Just Bad Luck?. In How Worlds Collapse (pp. 375-396). Routledge.
Wildcat2030 on X: "How archives can make – or break – a philosopher’s reputation – https://t.co/hjogJYQGE0 via @aeonmag" / X
(Now writings go through sentiment analysis. More nuanced than, for instance, philosophy, poetry, or horror. Perhaps moods create new genres. And styles become very personalized. To be emulated by machine.)
The Coming Technological Singularity
(Kurzweil's most recent book was just released after a delay caused by the pandemic which was even nearer. The author's method seems the same. Updated for DL and LLMs. The Law of Accelerating Returns. A question is how society reacts to bypassing all the biology stuff and if that is really better. The new book is a smooth read, in any case; half notes. And, of course, the field continues to claim progress although critics again say it has stalled. The Winter may have been so it did not fall into the wrong hands right off. So this wave is out finding applications. The next is yet to be revealed. And at some point, the tech is supposed to be making the announcements. In the book, there is no longer a need for legends. At least to the neo cloud cortex. In the meantime, Wikipedia still has them as one of the researchers that has not left Google. Heretics are uncatalogued.)
Joscha Bach on X: "Did you know that ancient Greek thinkers developed theories of representation that distinguish between sensory images (εικόνα, eikona), structured sensory data (εἴδωλον, eidolon), geometric shape (μορφή, morphe), graph (σχῆμα, schema), generative image (φάντασμα, fantasma),…" / X
Key US independence document bore arms of British king
The Eagle in the Mirror with author Jesse Fink
(Turing's Purgatory.)
The Misfit Who Built the IBM PC
Lawfare Archive: Jameel Jaffer on the 'The Drone Memos'
America’s Spy Satellites: Just How Advanced are They Really?
Evaluation of the jury system
A Deep Analysis Into Anti-Submarine Warfare
Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, 82, Dies