The $10bn Mouse Cryonics PrizeLet’s be bold — what about a $10bn cryonics prize to a team that freezes a mouse brain, keeps it under a cryogenic temperature (below −180°C) for 24 hours, and then brings back the mouse to life?Why?
Will Deep Learning Be Monopolized?Artificial neural networks are a kind of cognitive memory. They are memory, because they save information in terms of weight distributions, but they also work as processors, recognizing patterns and learning.
AI Goals and KPIsIf you look at the modern world, perhaps the closest thing to formulation of goals for an A.I. is the formulation of KPIs of our companies — our artificial social intelligences. They sometimes go wrong. For example, a company may choose maximization of total time spent on site, rather than time well spent.
Why Logarithmic Thinking?In a world, which is moving exponentially [1], it is important to have the right scale to look at innovation — a scale suitable to our linear thinking.The impact of an idea is like the strike of an earth-quake, and I think we should have a “Richter scale…
