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CHRIS MACRAE
some updates on ai ... christopher macrae ... Tue, Nov 14, 2023
CHRIS MACRAE
some updates on ai ... christopher macrae ... Tue, Nov 14, 2023
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Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
hello thank you for some long updates with both of you by phone; i want to just summarise because i guess each day a few more pieces are connecting (though of course that doesnt mean i have fitted them together correctly)
john and I are about half way through fei-0fei li's book; in some ways its disappointing because she seems to want to discuss things who has had a complete go at not some that may be in motion ;equally there are about 20 booktalks and spin offs that i try to calendar at Welcome schedule
Welcome schedule
and some times i naughtily add to the book talk agenda with my own update
also 15 years at stanford has made rei-rei li a team player - there are at least 20 stanford people she credits with their things be this because 2 of them started moocs so have ways into who's doing what are because its actually tauwanese americans as billionaire trustees of stanfird that have kept worldwide youth sdgs together in spite of eg trump- the amount of harm trump has done to climate and peace ai is not just down to him ; it shows i am afraid that us legislative systems are not geared to sudden innovations fairness and us media is so inept that its scary
i believe what happened is she and hassabis wrote neurocience theses through 2002s which changed the world because they said you are missing projects which may take 7 years to train the computer on - so thar reinstated long term and deep learning analyses which had actually been all but ignored for 50 years even though neumann's team had expected that 1940s neural networking theory would go this way- i still feel there is a wolfram-neumann connection to find
hassabis did his long-term computer training with games- if you get a computer to play itself millions of times at ge go - it becomes better at pattern recognition than any human at least at the level of being able to opens ourec protein codes and probably all sorts of mri and other diagonstics of bodily organs
fei-fei li did her main breakthrough 2009-17 for object recognition - today as just one example yoy can photo any plant or animal etc and an app will identify it for you and tell you almost any amount of knowledge -the array of ages where ai can change curricula is shown at Home - AI4ALL resources- from 2015 first sponsors of her editing this were ceo nvidia and melinda gates
Home - AI4ALL
AI4ALL opens doors to artificial intelligence for historically excluded talent through education and mentorship.
outside of stanford , there are really only 3 professors who have trained many good students in the consequences of how algorithm and deep data changes -they have french connections hinton who's just retired from toronto and returned to london - about his first student was yan lecun in ny a prolific trainer and for nearly 20 years just about the only neural network guy
and bengio at montreal who is arguably the purest mathematician -its bengio the un ai summit has asked to do a report before the summit moves to korea in 5 months time- this will be interesting because i expect climate and perhaps womens ai will be led out of asia
without these examples that you had to do a lot of investment in data in quite peculiar ways - if you didnt make data big enough the algorithm would not get enough layers to it, the nlp people woudln't have had the long-run confidence to do what has become the chats now probably the chats are a different game; its not clear there will be superstar alumni of professor as the foundation chats require corporate levels of investment
nonetheless to extent that policy making van help stanford has a good group ; the eu the worst group; and interestingly the english language gets its last chance to do good the more all countries find some cooperation eg education around uk and not the usual us policymakers- https://s3.amazonaws.com/thegovernmentsays-files/content/186/1867846.html
all this at a time when us elections may distract or conversely communities will need to breakthrough on arts or something
what the consequences of the chats will be is very peculiar- suddenly people like bill gates are saying personalised learning (einstein's thing will happen) we will all have out own learning agent - he's never said that before AI is about to completely change how you use computers
AI is about to completely change how you use computers
Bill Gates
In 5 years, agents will be able to give health care advice, tutor students, do your shopping, help workers be fa...
then again during covid, computers were permitted to do a real time classification of everything that was previously published in silos - it is rumored the same technique might suddenly offer an advance at the cop in a few weeks but i some how dont expect that
I wanted to say because ist a subject on peters mind recently that probably the longest single project fei-fei has done since image net proved itself in 2017 is one health - these seem to be 2 of teh references
ai celebrating greatest (ie most good for 8 bn beings) human intelligences (1950-2030)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2669-y
I am wondering if there is an angle - if accountants dont keep in touch with hotline or what ai is about to transform their best cliuents may leave them when the game changes as it must
I think this could change health accounting quite quickly though she tackles total experience profiles of patients it from angle of safety; its interesteing to see she has roped in probably 40 health pratcitioners mainly from the hospitals stanfird owns etc
ai celebrating greatest (ie most good for 8 bn beings) human intelligenc...
breaking nov- uk producer of bletchley ai summit mp domola- week in dcand lot more - some big turning points in ...
the problem with all of this is you pretty quicluy need to keep searching a particular context not helped by so much is gping on in the west coast where i guess none of us has someone we can rely on at the level of where are biggest bets going for better for worse