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by mindgam3 8y ago
My point is, calling a system that learned how to play 3 types of board games "general purpose" in any sense is a bit of a stretch. At best this is a "general purpose games-playing" system.
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Robot brains need symbols because the rhetoric around deep learning is getting out control. In the video analysis below of the latest AlphaZero vs Stockfish paper, AlphaZero is described as "DeepMind's general-purpose artificial i
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by mindgam3 8y ago
As stated in the article, Marcus' fundamental problem is: 1) "the notion that deep learning is without demonstrable limits and might, all by itself, get us to general intelligence, if we just give it a little more time and a littl
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by mindgam3 8y ago
"I don’t think we’re able to show our workings for higher level things like proofs." I can't speak for proofs, but this is false in the case of higher level things like chess. I'm not a grandmaster, but I was a chess mas
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Marc Benioff is an interesting counter example. He seems to be fairly woke these days as per his advocacy for the SF homelessness tax hike. Perhaps he too was tone deaf in an earlier incarnation, but I don’t recall any noteworthy gaffes.
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Completely agree that Kasparov was on to something with Advanced Chess. The first iteration of the idea failed to gain traction but that was more due to cumbersome tech (players staring at desktops playing slow games, not much of a spectat
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18639359
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Don’t Fall for Facebook’s ‘China Argument’(nytimes.com)
1 points by mindgam3 8y ago|0 comments
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by mindgam3 8y ago
This is like Zuck’s infamous VR tour of hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, but worse because Zuck for all his faults does not maintain a public image as an enlightened tech guru. On the plus side, a big part of spiritual practice involves tamin
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Anyone who has ever experienced deep emotional release during physical activity like yoga or massage knows that there is a connection between emotions and the body. It is weird, at least to the typical western-conditioned mind, but it is de
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Cannot recommend it highly enough for anyone living with PTSD or childhood trauma.
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Fair point. However one could argue that symbolic AI is a harder problem, perhaps awaiting a theoretical breakthrough. And that the pace of progress in this area has slowed at least in part due to ML hype sucking all the air out of the room
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by mindgam3 8y ago
The author, Gary Marcus, makes a cogent argument for why we need both deep learning and symbol manipulation to build "true" AI. what I found convincing was the argument that deep learning models currently can't even generaliz
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Why Robot Brains Need Symbols(nautil.us)
5 points by mindgam3 8y ago|4 comments
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by mindgam3 8y ago
I have wondered the same thing about myself. I came to two realizations, the first is exactly what you say about gravitating towards flow-inducing states (chess, esp bullet chess, mountain biking, motorcycling, etc) as a coping mechanism&#x
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by mindgam3 8y ago
‘We circled back to Ms. Sandberg’s work at Facebook. Wasn’t it always risky, I asked, to have someone leading such a large company also leading a movement fighting for workplace equality? “I’m curious,” Ms. Thomas said [Sandberg’s longtime
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Lean In’s Sheryl Sandberg Problem(nytimes.com)
2 points by mindgam3 8y ago|1 comments
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Previous discussion from a submission by a DeepMind engineer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18620978
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Thanks, I’ve heard about LeelaChess a bit but haven’t gotten a chance to check it out in depth. It sounds like a really interesting project. I’m glad somebody is doing some open source work in this area, just wish Google would join the part
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by mindgam3 8y ago
I would be able to accurately gauge AlphaZero’s true chess ability, strengths and weaknesses. Right now it’s impossible to do that given a curated selection of games. It would be like evaluating someone’s coding ability based on a few sampl
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Thanks for your patience... I got over 30 emails from HN folks, which is awesome but it's taking me slightly longer than expected to handle the volume. Will reach out to everyone before signing off the weekend, for real this time :-)
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by mindgam3 8y ago
In my experience, both cold immersion and meditation practices have helped. Cold immersion helps more quickly and viscerally. Short of paying someone to hold a loaded gun to my head or jumping in to an MMA cage match, the cold is by far the
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by mindgam3 8y ago
That’s a step, but I still find it weird to release some but not all of the games. I’m trying to come up with a logical reason other than they have something they don’t want people to see in the rest of the data, but so far I’m failing.
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by mindgam3 8y ago
To OP or anyone else at DeepMind: can you comment on why you decided not to release all of the games? IMHO as a competitive scholastic chess player (former national U16 champion and top 3 world U10) and software engineer, it would significa
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Absolutely fascinating. I have been practicing cold immersion for several years as part of sauna hot/cold cycles since I first discovered experimentally that it measurably improved my symptoms of acute and complex PTSD. Extremely heart
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by mindgam3 8y ago
"Maybe you could partially reverse the model" Even with my rudimentary understanding of machine learning, I'm fairly certain that reverse engineering a model presumably based on millions of training games would be utterly imp
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by mindgam3 8y ago
Props to DeepMind for an impressive result. And for fixing the unfair conditions from the previous match where they “crushed” a Stockfish that was severely handicapped due to time control and no opening books. Note that Stockfish score was
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by mindgam3 8y ago
This New Yorker piece covers the same topic in a more comprehensive and less sensationalistic format: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/facebook...
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by mindgam3 8y ago
"It should not come as a surprise that Facebook — a giant, for-profit company whose early employees reportedly ended staff meetings by chanting “domination!” — would act in its own interests. But the internal emails, a rare glimpse int
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Facebook Emails Show Its Real Mission: Making Money and Crushing Competition(nytimes.com)
3 points by mindgam3 8y ago|2 comments

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