Reading this, you may be left with the feeling this is the most obvious thing in the world. But I do not think it is. At least not to most people. Engineers build things. However... ... imagine someone building an elevator. Or a rocket having to launching itself into space. Or a bridge that has... Continue Reading →
Finance, Start-ups, Scale-ups, People, Ecosystems, and the BRAIN
That's Frankie. My Dog. Just sayin'. I was listening to a podcast from the author of Thousand Brains - New Theory of Intelligence and it got me thinkin'. For anyone that has ever worked for a company... in particular a financial institution… there is awareness training. There is Security Training. There is Compliance Training. There... Continue Reading →
ARCHITECT your Environment
HOW you ARCHITECT YOUR ENVIRONMENT… ... has a great impact on your HABITS. As your ENVIRONMENT changes, your STATE OF MIND changes. As your STATE OF MIND changes, it impacts your ENVIRONMENT. Who YOU CHOOSE to have around you... ... the devices playing a part in your daily life... ... like your mobile… ...OR BRAIN-TO-COMPUTER... Continue Reading →
Neurons and Neurotransmitters
NEURONS… the FUNDAMENTAL UNITS of the brain and nervous system. At the time of birth, you may have more than 100 BILLION! THAT configure THEMSELVES… ... to make each of you UNIQUE in HOW... you THINK, FEEL, and ACT. Neurons get 'LIVEWIRED'... ...as neuroscientist DAVID EAGLEMAN calls it. From the ACTUAL ACT of making mistakes…... Continue Reading →
Attacking without INTELLIGENCE
GPT3. An Artificial Intelligence. A general-purpose LANGUAGE GENERATOR... ...or a LANGUAGE PREDICTION MODEL... ...using 175 BILLION PARAMETERS… ...THAT when introduced in May 2020… ...was the LARGEST ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK ever created. It was trained by consuming most of the Internet. 45TB of TEXT DATA. UNSUPERVISED. GTP-3 was used by Georgetown researches… ... to write misleading... Continue Reading →
The Human Interface
The WORLD is getting more INTERCONNECTED. A BRAIN-COMPUTER Interface (BCI) makes it possible to connect a HUMAN, with a MACHINE. And CONTROL... A MACHINE… with just BRAIN SIGNALS. This type of technology is in its INFANCY… ... but we are making RAPID progress. For example, researchers ASKED a paralysed man to IMAGINE he was writing... Continue Reading →
How you LEARN
TRY, FAIL and LEARN. That's the pattern you EMPLOY. To create new NEURAL PATTERNS. PHYSICAL ONES. The act of TRYING, and FAILING, is a CALIBRATION LOOP. As you CALIBRATE and IMPROVE, DOPAMINE is released. It is released in the ANTICIPATION of, and upon COMPLETION of... ... what you ARE SEEKING. DOPAMINE. The Molecule of MORE.... Continue Reading →
As Artificial Intelligence matures, what BECOMES of us?
GPT-3. A text generator. It can PRODUCE HUMAN-like text. Using 175 BILLION machine learning PARAMETERS. The technological advancements in Artificial Intelligence are RAPID. It's NOT INTELLIGENCE. But... it may ONE DAY open up EXISTENTIAL THREATS. To HUMANS. With ONE line of INPUT, one COMMAND, you can ask GPT-3 to GENERATE a SPAM EMAIL. Or GENERATE... Continue Reading →
The BRAIN
The HUMAN BRAIN is estimated to contain approximately 86 BILLION NEURONS. 100+ BILLION upon BIRTH. You are born into the world without a fully developed brain, ready to be BOOTSTRAPPED. BY YOUR ENVIRONMENT. It sits ALONE in the cranial vault... ...cut off from the REAL world... ...with its ONLY input coming from your PERIPHERALS. Sight,... Continue Reading →
