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I've been playing with #Claude .ai Sonnet 4 over the weekend 😲

It's astounding how gracefully it pivots on two word prompts toying with '#MachineLearning'

claude.ai/share/3276ab06-be41-

Sure it locks into context heavily in order to generate plausible responses, but attention patterns are so tolerant to faulty input.

It's also an amazing co-pilot for #code analysis and function generation.

Fascinatingly the AI assistants personality match their institution's culture.

#LLM#AI#chatbot

»Turing-Preisträger Richard Sutton: KI-Industrie hat "ihren Weg verloren"
Auch der Turing-Preisträger Richard Sutton kritisiert den aktuellen Zustand der KI-Industrie. Seine eigene Vision für superintelligente KI-Systeme ist jedoch noch nicht umsetzbar.«

Bei den Finanzverantwortlichen in der Industrie geht es immer um den ungehemmten Profit, egal um welchen Preis und wie mental rückständig es ist.

🤑 the-decoder.de/turing-preistra

THE-DECODER.de · Turing-Preisträger Richard Sutton: KI-Industrie hat "ihren Weg verloren"Auch der Turing-Preisträger Richard Sutton kritisiert den aktuellen Zustand der KI-Industrie. Seine eigene Vision für superintelligente KI-Systeme ist jedoch noch nicht umsetzbar.
#ki#turing#profit

#AI #AlanTuring #TuringInstitute #Turing #Computing #ArtificialIntelligence #UK #Technology #ComputerScience #Science
It’s quite ironic that an organisation established in commemoration of one of our greatest geniuses may fail because its leaders appear to be too incompetent to run it…

Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse bbc.com/news/articles/c24zz2vd

www.bbc.comStaff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapseA complaint raises concerns about the funding risks and a "toxic" culture at the Alan Turing Institute.

I got my daughters a #Turing Tumble game recently, I’d heard a few things about how good it is and I can confirm, fascinating and really making them think! Sat watching them trying to solve a puzzle that needs 2 more parts adding before it’s solved is putting a smile on my face! This puzzle is currently failing as we need to get a sequence of 2 blue 2 red, 2 blue etc. but due to the starting position of the 2 bit pieces it failed! 😊

Okay, here it is. This is the unofficial official timeline of #AI. I'm going to tell you what to expect, and it's definitely not: this all goes away and we return to before.

Are you ready for this? Are you sure? Well, read on.

Before I continue, I'm going to lay out some AI #benchmarks that we'll use to define "how good / scary is this AI?" This is in rough order of difficulty.

#Lovelace #Test for #Emergence: "Can a system produce surprising and useful outputes that weren't explicitely programmed via weak emergence?"

#Loebner Test: "Can a computer fool casual human judges in text conversations?" ( #Modern #LLM AIs are close to this )

#Turing Test (Original Imitation Game): "A man or a computer and a woman are both answering text interrogations trying to convince them that they are the woman. Can the computer perform as well as the man?" (This was the actual orginial #TuringTest.)

Strengthened #Imitation Game: "A man or a #computer and a woman are both answering text interrogations. Can the computer perform as well as the woman?"

#Coffee Test: "Can a #system enter a strangers house with no prior infor and using #perception, imitation, and #reasoning figure out how to make a cup of coffee?"

#College #Student Test: "Can a robot enroll in college, attend classes like an actual student, learn from the instructions things it didn't know before, and graduate?"

#VoightKampff Test: "Can a machine withstand adversarial exper interrogation and still pass as #human?"

#Harnad's Total Turing Test: "Is the system indistinguishible from humans in every aspect?" (This is a #DuckTest.)

Non #Duck Test: "Even with full access to internals, can experts find no evidence that it isn't a genuine human mind?"

If former #Amazon executive Doug #Gurr is being pushed out of the Alan #Turing Institute for incompetent leadership, what is he still doing chairing the UK Competition & Markets Authority, where he has a GIGANTIC conflict of interest? #CMA #DMCCA theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · Minister demands overhaul of UK’s leading AI instituteBy Dan Milmo

🧵 Alan Turing showed that not everything logically definable is also computable.

Using a diagonalization method like Cantor’s, we can build a set D:
the set of Turing machine codes that don’t belong to their own halting set.

🔁 Here’s the twist:
No Turing machine can generate D without causing a contradiction.

#Turing #computability

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Fonctions executives : "partie de notre #cerveau dédiée à #Apollon, la plus rationnelle/sage/mesurée, le cerveau sec."

" #Turing le logicien, qui s'intéressait aux probabilités et rêvait déjà de créer un cerveau artificiel, n'a-t-il pas inventé en chemin le langage informatique ?"

"Mais #Dionysos veille et occupe des zones cérébrales anciennes/souterraines, les circuits du plaisir et de la récompense, cerveau humide et hormonal qui nous donne envie de #vivre..."

Alan #Turing: The #codebreaker who saved 'millions of lives' by breaking the encryption messages of hitler to the generals in the front. After #WW2, Turing was convicted because of his #homosexuality and given a choice between imprisonment and probation. His probation would be conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal physical changes designed to reduce libido, known as "chemical castration".

don't let the powerful control you, keep the flame of resisting burning for the next generations

Wonderful news for Edmonton's AI mage Rich Sutton, for the University of Alberta, and for AMII, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. I've had a couple of chances over the years to interview Rich and his colleagues, and tour their labs. Their work on reinforcement learning - far more interesting than LLM - has made Edmonton a real AI centre of excellence. Meeting him is the closest I'll ever come to meeting Gandalf. ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/03/c #yeg #Edmonton #ualberta #TuringAward #Turing #AI

www.ualberta.caComputing science professor wins ‘Nobel Prize in computing’Richard Sutton, a University of Alberta computing science professor and one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning, has been honoured as co-recipient of the 2024 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize in Computing.”

Alan Turing didn't have our modern boolean circuit notations, so he described circuits by the minimum number of high input lines required to trigger an output. You can almost see it as a neural net rather than logical gates, except when the ≢ sign appears for XOR. The lines with zeroes written over the node outlines are inhibitors.

The semicircles are delays measured in bits, which (as this was a serial machine) can achieve all sorts of shifting and rotation operations. The rectangles are delay lines (mercury tanks designed by Tommy Flowers at the Post Office research centre in Dollis Hill), and the number inside indicates the number of bits cycling around (although in some pages it's the number of 32-bit words, confusingly). Smaller delay lines could buffer a word for combination in a future operation.

The image here is a page from The Logical Design of the Pilot Model ACE, by J.H. Wilkinson,Sept 1951. alanturing.net/turing_archive/ #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #Turing #PilotACE