Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Dec 6, 2021Xenobots - Halting Conformal Replication Chains of Kinematically-Constrained StructuresThis post is a first-thoughts commentary on the paper by Kriegman, Blackiston, Levin, and Bongard found here (PDF). Is it actually a self-replication result as claimed in the paper? The introductory two paragraphs seems to fall short of validating it...DiscussAlife
Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Dec 24, 2021ML "Research" - Passing The Buck of ComplexityOriginal post: here. Response to recent blog post: To Understand Language is to Understand Generalization and the earlier one Just Ask for Generalization TL/DR: ML "generalization" is equivalent to language. To put my position on this blog post up fr...DiscussMachine Learning
Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Oct 11, 2021Everything Is a Program - Chapter 0What comes to mind when you hear the word “program”? Perhaps, a computer program. Perhaps, a mobile application or a video game. Is it possible to create a formal definition that covers every app on your phone, on your desktop, and every web app in y...DiscussArtificial Intelligence
Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Apr 8, 2022Everything Is a Program - Chapter 3 - TypesOriginal post: here. In the 0th post of this series we provide a definition of a program. Def. Program - a set of sequences In the last post (2nd post) we discussed how all properties of programs are also programs. But, if you will notice we nearly...DiscussAlife
Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Feb 24, 2022A New Theory of VirusesOriginal post: here. This post presents an alternative view of viruses that seems to encompass known viral phenomenon and consequences as well as unseen phenomenon that could be searched for/tested in vivo or in vitro. Let us begin by expanding a Vir...DiscussAlife
Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Feb 17, 2022Quines Are Not Self-ReplicationOriginal post: here. If we were to read the blog post here entitled: Quines (self-replicating programs), then we would see it make a few definitions and points about quines. Firstly it defines quines as such: Def. 0 - Quine - a computer program whic...DiscussSoftware Engineering
Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Feb 14, 2022Simulacrum vs. CorporealityOriginal post: here. In the last post, we discussed how all programs have properties and that all properties are programs themselves. This post is a brief example of how properties can be used in beginning to formalize discussions around differentiat...DiscussAlife
Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Jan 10, 2022Everything Is a Program - Chapter 2 - PropertiesOriginal post: here. In the first post of this series we introduced a definition of what a program is that succinctly captures a universal concept. In the second post of the series, we discussed how all machines abstract and physical, are also progra...DiscussAlife
Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Jan 6, 2022"Collective Intelligence" Is Dead In The WaterOriginal post: here. This post is commentary on the survey paper Collective Intelligence For Deep Learning - A Survey of Recent Developments by Ha and Yang from Google Brain. Overall, the paper is a bit of a mess. As is almost everything that comes o...DiscussAlife
Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Dec 30, 2021Everything Is a Program - Chapter 1 - MachinesOriginal post: here. In the previous first post in the series we discussed how everything is a program. And we provided a simple definition of “program” to begin fleshing out the argument. In that post we restricted discussions of “programs” to space...DiscussAlife
Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Dec 25, 2021Open-Ended Evolution IS AGIOne of the biggest problems in AI, in ALife, and in origin of life models is: time complexity. Complexity. See a recent paper: The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life is Rare TL/DR: The time complexity of even a probabilist...DiscussArtificial Intelligence
Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Dec 24, 2021ML "Research" - Passing The Buck of ComplexityOriginal post: here. Response to recent blog post: To Understand Language is to Understand Generalization and the earlier one Just Ask for Generalization TL/DR: ML "generalization" is equivalent to language. To put my position on this blog post up fr...DiscussMachine Learning
Genevisgenevis.hashnode.net·Dec 17, 2021The Future of AI is Really Not Self-AssemblingA response to the post: The Future of Artificial Intelligence is Self-Organizing and Self-Assembling Intelligence is solved. There are simple definitions of an intelligent system that are broad enough in coverage yet specific enough in scope that the...DiscussAlife
