Agreements about reality in technological progress. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: the chain reaction of questions; ontology and treaties for sharing; prediction—the need for precise ontologies is going to increase. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE116 AIR DATE: Saturday, 14th Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 the chain reaction of questions; 0:03:16 ontology and treaties for sharing; 0:06:21 prediction—the need for precise ontologies is going to increase. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
How we would decide, given predictions, whether to risk continued technological advance. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: progress, 'we' and winners; better and worse problems can be empirical; technological progress. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE115 AIR DATE: Friday, 13th Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 progress, 'we' and winners; 0:05:59 better and worse problems can be empirical; 0:08:46 technological progress. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Human loss of freedom by deference to authority, dependency on machines, and delegation of defense. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: mathematician Wiener; mathematician and philosopher Russell; philosopher Horesh; mathematician and terrorist Kaczynski; philosopher Bostrom. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE114 AIR DATE: Thursday, 12th Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 mathematician Wiener; 0:04:19 mathematician and philosopher Russell; 0:05:57 philosopher Horesh; 0:07:33 mathematician and terrorist Kaczynski; 0:13:26 philosopher Bostrom. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Beliefs, and the feelings they cause, determine what chances we take; but possibilities don't care about our beliefs. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: prediction—freedom is going to decrease; decisions—two problems of life and the problem of death; uncertainty; beliefs and feelings; chances; possibilities; If you believe x, do you consent to y? COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE113 AIR DATE: Wednesday, 11th Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 prediction—freedom is going to decrease; 0:01:37 decisions—two problems of life and the problem of death; 0:03:16 uncertainty; 0:06:03 beliefs and feelings; 0:07:10 chances; 0:10:47 possibilities; 0:12:22 If you believe x, do you consent to y? COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Drawing attention to dangerous information can increase risk, but the attention economy tends to draw attention toward amusement. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: attention hazard of information; adversaries and agents; secrets and suppression; the attention (distraction) economy. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE112 AIR DATE: Tuesday, 10th Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 attention hazard of information; 0:03:24 adversaries and agents; 0:07:46 secrets and suppression; 0:08:28 the attention (distraction) economy. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Russell and Norvig say it's natural to worry that AI will destroy us, and that the solution is good design that preserves our control. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: the gorilla problem; the human problem. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE111 AIR DATE: Monday, 9th Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 the gorilla problem; 0:03:01 the human problem. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Tristan Harris's analysis of China's TikTok vs. the exported version. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: Tristan Harris on '60 Minutes', 2022; Harris on 'Joe Rogan', 2021. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE110 AIR DATE: Sunday, 8th Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 Tristan Harris on '60 Minutes', 2022; 0:01:34 Harris on 'Joe Rogan', 2021. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
An observation of AI in action (TikTok), a decision (Low-Power Mode), and a coincidence (Tik-Tok). SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: prediction—default doom; preferences—competing goals; decision—low-power mode. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE109 AIR DATE: Saturday, 7th Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 prediction—default doom; 0:08:31 preferences—competing goals; 0:15:52 decision—low-power mode. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
A subdivision within the players of the computer control game. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: notes on CSPs, war in Re107, and Re69's citation; two categories of players in computer control. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE108 AIR DATE: Friday, 6th Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 notes on CSPs, war in Re107, and Re69's citation; 0:02:43 two categories of players in computer control. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
War, peace and commerce AI in our multi-agent world. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: at least three stances toward other agents; war, peace and commerce AI; questions and answers. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE107 AIR DATE: Thursday, 5th Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 at least three stances toward other agents; 0:02:36 war, peace and commerce AI; 0:11:46 questions and answers. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Technical terms from loaded words. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: elitism and culling in evolutionary algorithms; coercion in sensorless (conformant) problems; adversaries and dead ends in online search; strategy in partially observable and nondeterministic environments; AI can handle what science can't(?). COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE106 AIR DATE: Wednesday, 4th Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 elitism and culling in evolutionary algorithms; 0:07:53 coercion in sensorless (conformant) problems; 0:14:22 adversaries and dead ends in online search; 0:18:03 strategy in partially observable and nondeterministic environments; 0:19:38 AI can handle what science can't(?). COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
The mechanical advantage of those who control AI engineers. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: agent, environment arbitrary; task environment is problem, agent is solution; a recent, vast array of tools; mechanical advantage; it's not like math; solve or be solved. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE105 AIR DATE: Tuesday, 3rd Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 agent, environment arbitrary; 0:02:59 task environment is problem, agent is solution; 0:03:09 a recent, vast array of tools; 0:03:45 mechanical advantage; 0:08:52 it's not like math; 0:10:34 solve or be solved. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Correcting the TABLE-DRIVEN-AGENT series and modeling agents and environments. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: correction to Re65–Re69, Re77—agent program vs. agent function; agents, task environments and their environments; AI is a new kind of literacy. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE104 AIR DATE: Monday, 2nd Jan. 2023, 2 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 correction to Re65–Re69, Re77—agent program vs. agent function; 0:03:19 agents, task environments and their environments; 0:09:36 AI is a new kind of literacy. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Adding fitness and truth to AIMA's dimensions, and considering 'artificial flight'. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: amendments and corrections—Re102; deciding vs. discovering what AI is; agent intelligence with respect to truth and fitness; 'artificial flight'. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE103 AIR DATE: Sunday, 1st Jan. 2023, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 amendments and corrections—Re102; 0:07:08 deciding vs. discovering what AI is; 0:09:59 agent intelligence with respect to truth and fitness; 0:15:10 'artificial flight'. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Well-formed goals in the computer control game. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: Kurzweil, 2029 and 2042; more thoughts on learning AI; What are the purposes of learning AI?; What is the purpose of Retraice?; What is our problem, to which math, code and AIMA4e are part of the solution?; moonshots. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE102 AIR DATE: Saturday, 31st Dec. 2022, 2 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 Kurzweil, 2029 and 2042; 0:12:12 more thoughts on learning AI; 0:18:34 What are the purposes of learning AI?; 0:19:11 What is the purpose of Retraice?; 0:24:59 What is our problem, to which math, code and AIMA4e are part of the solution?; 0:27:18 moonshots. COPYRIGHT: 2023 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
How ChatGPT crosses with the hypotheses. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: What is it again?; ChatGPT and the world; ChatGPT and H1–H12. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE101 AIR DATE: Friday, 30th Dec. 2022, 4 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 What is it again?; 0:02:38 ChatGPT and the world; 0:08:53 ChatGPT and H1–H12. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
An interpretation of ChatGPT's architecture. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: an attempt to explain language models; an attempt to explain ChatGPT. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE100 AIR DATE: Thursday, 29th Dec. 2022, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 an attempt to explain language models; 0:10:33 an attempt to explain ChatGPT. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Just-in-case and just-in-time as strategies for what to learn when. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: now evident, after the December to Remember Math and Code Event; just-in-case, bottom-up and just-in-time, top-down learning; finding math and code needs in evidence (top-down); simplified. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE99 AIR DATE: Wednesday, 28th Dec. 2022, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 now evident, after the December to Remember Math and Code Event; 0:15:03 just-in-case, bottom-up and just-in-time, top-down learning; 0:20:05 finding math and code needs in evidence (top-down); 0:25:08 simplified. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Wondering about ChatGPT's predictions and keeping it alive. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: amendments and corrections to Re96; open question—What is it good at?; open question—What does it do?; What does it take to keep (e.g.) ChatGPT 'alive'?; next, we'll cross ChatGPT with the hypotheses. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE98 AIR DATE: Tuesday, 27th Dec. 2022, 11 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 amendments and corrections to Re96; 0:03:30 open question—What is it good at?; 0:09:25 open question—What does it do?; 0:17:54 What does it take to keep (e.g.) ChatGPT 'alive'?; 0:30:28 next, we'll cross ChatGPT with the hypotheses. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
A summary of how the AIMA-Python implementation of BFS works and what it took to learn it. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: overview; Re82 formal problems, Re84 nodes, Re90 problem implementation, Re95 final execution; the len call, and straight-line distances vs. road distances; the program running, and source. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE97 AIR DATE: Tuesday, 27th Dec. 2022, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 overview; 0:05:02 Re82 formal problems, Re84 nodes, Re90 problem implementation, Re95 final execution; 0:08:22 the len call, and straight-line distances vs. road distances; 0:14:34 the program running, and source. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
An entry in the history books of the future. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: ChatGPT is what?; the price of some labor to zero; confidence; AOSE; asking it to do something useful; reading and learning about itself. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE96 AIR DATE: Monday, 26th Dec. 2022, 11 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 ChatGPT is what?; 0:06:04 the price of some labor to zero; 0:17:49 confidence; 0:26:05 AOSE; 0:26:25 asking it to do something useful; 0:35:59 reading and learning about itself. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
frontier is a PriorityQueue which is built on heapq and uses f to create (score, item) pairs to be queued. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE95 AIR DATE: Monday, 26th Dec. 2022, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 getting from A to B. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Making BFS and PriorityQueue chatty to increase our confidence in their output. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: printing messages to reveal the workings of BFS and PriorityQueue; transparency increases confidence. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE94 AIR DATE: Sunday, 25th Dec. 2022, 4 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 printing messages to reveal the workings of BFS and PriorityQueue; 0:10:16 transparency increases confidence. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Examining Nodes and their handling by PriorityQueue. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: changing f and iterating a Node; discovering the Node repr method. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE93 AIR DATE: Saturday, 24th Dec. 2022, 4 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 changing f and iterating a Node; 0:12:28 discovering the Node repr method. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
From best_first_search to Node to PriorityQueue to frontier. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: stepping through BFS and PriorityQueue; frontier.items. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE92 AIR DATE: Friday, 23rd Dec. 2022, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 stepping through BFS and PriorityQueue; 0:15:12 frontier.items. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Trying to make PriorityQueue work by fiddling with evaluation functions. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: getting best first search to run; a success of sorts. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE91 AIR DATE: Thursday, 22nd Dec. 2022, 11 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 getting best first search to run; 0:13:27 a success of sorts. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
How instantiations of Map work. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: a Map has locations, neighbors and distances; tmap's locations, neighbors and distances. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE90 AIR DATE: Thursday, 22nd Dec. 2022, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 a Map has locations, neighbors and distances; 0:12:39 tmap's locations, neighbors and distances. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
How multimap works. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: various prefatory remarks; multimap creates a dictionary of actions. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE89 AIR DATE: Wednesday, 21st Dec. 2022, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 various prefatory remarks; 0:03:53 multimap creates a dictionary of actions. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Finishing what we started with multimap. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: stepping through multimap; demonstrating the Map-multimap side-effects. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE88 AIR DATE: Tuesday, 20th Dec. 2022, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 stepping through multimap; 0:22:35 demonstrating the Map-multimap side-effects. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM
Unpacking the code that gets us the neighbors of our current state which are the actions available in the Romania problem. SUBSCRIBE AT: HTTPS://PAID.RETRAICE.COM DETAILS: Map and multimap; the side effects of multimap via Map on tlinks. COMPLETE NOTES AND VIDEO AT: HTTPS://WWW.RETRAICE.COM/SEGMENTS/RE87 AIR DATE: Monday, 19th Dec. 2022, 10 : 00 PM Eastern/US. 0:00:00 Map and multimap; 0:49:50 the side effects of multimap via Map on tlinks. COPYRIGHT: 2022 RETRAICE, INC. HTTPS://RETRAICE.COM