Since Homo sapiens started to walk on the face of Earth approximately 200,000 years ago, they have simultaneously been navigating a realm of ideas and knowledge that is less tangible but certainly not less significant. Human history is marked by a series of discoveries and inventions that have shaped that very history. Some of these…

The man with the pistol will be a dead man. Are we just rephrasing the old metonymic adage coined by the English author Edward Bulwer Lytton that “The pen is mightier than the sword”? Recently, mocking AI doomsayers, Yann LeCun posted on his twitter account the following: – Engineer: I invented this new thing. I…

Many companies use the data they have to get insights, for example on how to grow their business. Unfortunately, a lack of data variety and superficiality in the analysis can often lead to the wrong conclusion. One quick and simple example can be produced by creating 100 imaginary voters and assigning votes to them. Let’s…

The modern mantra in almost every company seems to be: we need lots of data, and the more the better. Modern companies, large and small, believe that understanding and interpreting the terabytes of data that have accumulated will provide insights into their customers, predictions into the future and a leg up on their competitors. This…

Could chat-GPT be renamed Johnny-come-lately? In the lyrics of an old Eagles song, Johnny was the new kid in town and everybody loved him. Or do they? And who is this new kid in town anyway? Is he the wunderkid bringing us a step closer to achieving artificial general intelligence or rather “an off-ramp on…

AGI solutions are being continuously investigated, though the current most promising mainstream technology, neural networks, while contributing to some extraordinary results, are still running short of achieving them. This criticism is not new, and, most recently Gary Marcus, in “Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal”, arXiv:1801.00631v1, has outlined many issues with current deep learning architectures, in particular…

The AI revolution in finance seem to keep going without losing steam. Multiple start-ups are launching and those who have already entered the financial fray are getting more exposure. A PwC report states “FinTech will drive the new business model” as the number one technology force needed to compete in the financial industry in 2020 and…

The recent AI revolution is based on a few important pillars: faster computing speed, distributed computing, abundance of data and lower storage costs. To date, however, there still are some critical steps that are missing to achieve true continuous intelligence. Continuous intelligence refers to a design in which real-time analytics is seamlessly integrated within a…

For centuries philosophers and later psychologists have debated what consciousness is, without reaching a consensus. With the progress made in neural networks, deep learning and artificial intelligence, the debate is now reaching technologists and artificial intelligence experts. Consciousness has been debated for centuries, though there is no unique definition. While we humans make a claim to…

Connectome (http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org) is a term often used to indicate the set of connections between the neurons in our brain, a sort of highway mapping of the brain. The quest for a connectome is still eluding the scientific community, but more importantly, perhaps, it is the search for a ‘learnome’ or an ‘algorithm-ome’ i.e. the set of…