Notes on science, technology, progress, and synthetic intelligencehttps://zhebrak.io/https://zhebrak.io/posts/a-window/https://zhebrak.io/posts/a-window/Achieving synthetic general intelligence is likely impossible without decoupling the models from human interfaces.Sat, 02 Nov 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/keeping-up/https://zhebrak.io/posts/keeping-up/Policies often balance short-term and long-term perspectives.Sun, 02 Jun 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/hidden-values/https://zhebrak.io/posts/hidden-values/Language and audiovisual interfaces inform the current landscape and evolution of widely adopted AI applications.Sun, 26 May 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/emergent-grammar/https://zhebrak.io/posts/emergent-grammar/We are overly optimistic when finding local structure in the environment and consistently underestimate its emergent properties.Fri, 12 Jan 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/wait-calculation/https://zhebrak.io/posts/wait-calculation/As with the interstellar travel wait calculation, we might be nearing a time when investing in non-AI scientific projects could prove suboptimal.Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/limited-throughput/https://zhebrak.io/posts/limited-throughput/There are only so many interactions with synthetic agents humans can maintain daily.Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/synthetic-coevolution/https://zhebrak.io/posts/synthetic-coevolution/Soon, our engagement with synthetic intelligence agents will be ubiquitous and natural as we rely more on their assistance.Sun, 26 Mar 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/losing-authorship/https://zhebrak.io/posts/losing-authorship/As the lines between the human author and their digital assistants blur further, the existing idea of data authorship loses its value.Sat, 18 Mar 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/virtual-data-streams/https://zhebrak.io/posts/virtual-data-streams/Assuming novel intelligence models would benefit from acquiring data beyond existing datasets and the internet.Sun, 05 Mar 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/wheres-wally/https://zhebrak.io/posts/wheres-wally/Continuing the last week's line of thought, we can expect consciousness to dissolve as we approach the extent of our potential.Sat, 25 Feb 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/self-and-local-models/https://zhebrak.io/posts/self-and-local-models/If self is indeed just a story we tell ourselves to preserve the agent's continuity in the physical world.Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/fragmented-reality-of-social-networks/https://zhebrak.io/posts/fragmented-reality-of-social-networks/Existing social platforms tailor the user experience to a limited set of interaction formats and guidelines.Sat, 11 Feb 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/information-flow/https://zhebrak.io/posts/information-flow/Humans are information-processing machines that operate on internal and external signalling.Sat, 04 Feb 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/distorted-virtual-avatars/https://zhebrak.io/posts/distorted-virtual-avatars/From AI-enabled photo editing apps to fully-fledged virtual avatars, our synthetic presence becomes more vivid and pronounced.Sat, 21 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/god-of-the-gaps/https://zhebrak.io/posts/god-of-the-gaps/One's attitude towards an unknown opponent in an online chess match can be mostly explained by the current mood and key personality traits.Sat, 14 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/practice-imperfections/https://zhebrak.io/posts/practice-imperfections/Exposure to the scientific approach inhibits the ability to create and make mistakes.Sat, 07 Jan 2023 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/in-between/https://zhebrak.io/posts/in-between/We are both masters and subjects to our environment. We define interactions with the world through the employed tools.Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/navigating-abstractions/https://zhebrak.io/posts/navigating-abstractions/We make decisions relying on learned representations and human priors.Sat, 24 Dec 2022 12:00:00 GMThttps://zhebrak.io/posts/unintended/https://zhebrak.io/posts/unintended/We live in a world of undefined and unclear objectives, surrounded by an abundance of external influence factors.Sat, 17 Dec 2022 12:00:00 GMT