https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/05/11/a-car-safety-myths-and-facts/
Autonomous car safety myths and facts – Piekniewski's blog
Regular readers by now may have gathered that I'm skeptical about the current self driving car hype. To make things clear: this is not because I would not like...
autonomouscarsafetymythsfacts
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2019/03/12/a-short-story-of-silicon-valleys-affair-with-ai/
A brief story of Silicon Valley’s affair with AI – Piekniewski's blog
Once upon a time, in the 1980's there was a magical place called Silicon Valley. Wonderful things were about to happen there and many people were about make a...
briefstorysiliconaffairpiekniewski
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2016/08/
August 2016 – Piekniewski's blog
augustpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/07/27/measuring-performance-ml/
Problems with measuring performance in Machine Learning – Piekniewski's blog
With today's advancements in AI we often see media reports of superhuman performance in some task. These often quite dramatic announcements should however be...
machine learningproblemsmeasuringperformancepiekniewski
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/12/28/elon-and-the-collective/
Elon and the collective – Piekniewski's blog
Elon Musk is a polarizing figure. His ideas frequently come about in casual conversations. People are often amused and impressed by his achievements. I must...
eloncollectivepiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2021/05/
May 2021 – Piekniewski's blog
maypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2019/01/
January 2019 – Piekniewski's blog
januarypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/03/
March 2017 – Piekniewski's blog
marchpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2024/04/
April 2024 – Piekniewski's blog
aprilpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2019/05/30/ai-circus-mid-2019-update/
AI circus, mid 2019 update – Piekniewski's blog
Introduction It's been roughly a year since I posted my viral
aicircusmidupdatepiekniewski
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/03/27/who-will-figure-out-intelligence/
Who will figure out intelligence? – Piekniewski's blog
In my career I've encountered researchers in several fields who try to address the (artificial) intelligence problem. What I found though, is that researchers...
figureintelligencepiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/category/scifi/
Scifi – Piekniewski's blog
My thoughts on life, universe and everything.
scifipiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/07/26/2017-pvm-talk-at-uc-merced/
2017 PVM talk at UC Merced – Piekniewski's blog
There has been a lot of stuff going on recently and I've been super busy. I have a few posts in early stage of development and a few ideas in the pipeline but...
pvmtalkucmercedpiekniewski
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/02/22/self-made-time-capsule/
Self made time capsule, part 1 – Piekniewski's blog
It will not be about AI this time, neither will it be about Sci-fi. It will actually be exactly about what the title indicates. So let's begin. Since a certain...
self madetime capsulepartpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2021/11/
November 2021 – Piekniewski's blog
novemberpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/05/28/ai-winter-is-well-on-its-way/?ref=feedle.world
AI winter is well on its way – Piekniewski's blog
Deep learning has been at the forefront of the so called AI revolution for quite a few years now, and many people had believed that it is the silver bullet...
aiwinterwellwaypiekniewski
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2016/11/
November 2016 – Piekniewski's blog
novemberpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2021/11/17/brain-computer-confusion/
Brain computer confusion – Piekniewski's blog
There is a never ending discussion, which very concisely can be summarized in this tweet below: And frankly any time I see similar exchanges (and I see a lot...
brain computerconfusionpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2020/06/08/ai-the-no-bullshit-approach/
AI – the no bullshit approach – Piekniewski's blog
Intro Since many of my posts were mostly critical and arguably somewhat cynical [1], [2], [3], at least over the last 2-3 years, I decided to switch gears a...
aibullshitapproachpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2020/04/
April 2020 – Piekniewski's blog
aprilpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/09/
September 2018 – Piekniewski's blog
septemberpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2019/02/16/a-v-safety-2018-update-2/
Autonomous vehicle safety myths and facts, 2019 update – Piekniewski's blog
It has became a tradition that I write a quick update on the state of self driving car development every year when the California DMV releases their...
autonomous vehiclesafetymythsfactsupdate
https://blog.piekniewski.info/
Piekniewski's blog – On limits of deep learning and where to go next with AI.
On limits of deep learning and where to go next with AI.
deep learninggo nextpiekniewskibloglimits
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2020/12/
December 2020 – Piekniewski's blog
decemberpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2022/12/
December 2022 – Piekniewski's blog
decemberpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2023/04/
April 2023 – Piekniewski's blog
aprilpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/11/18/mt-intelligence/
Mt. intelligence – Piekniewski's blog
In this post I'd like to present a slightly different take on AI and expose one dimension of Intelligence which we hardly explore with mainstream efforts. In...
mtintelligencepiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/07/
July 2017 – Piekniewski's blog
julypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/03/06/give-me-a-dataset-to-train-and-i-shall-move-the-world/
Give me a dataset to train, and I shall move the world – Piekniewski's blog
There is a widespread belief among the
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https://blog.piekniewski.info/2016/11/04/predictive-vision-in-a-nutshell/
Predictive Vision in a nutshell – Piekniewski's blog
I've elaborated in my previous post on why I think predictive capability is crucial for an intelligent agent and how we get fooled by getting 90% of motor...
predictivevisionnutshellpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2023/10/21/the-church-of-agi/
The Church of AGI – Piekniewski's blog
As I child I've been raised as a catholic and I vividly remember what it was like to believe in God and all the divine entities. It does bring certain amount...
churchagipiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/07/
July 2018 – Piekniewski's blog
julypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2023/10/
October 2023 – Piekniewski's blog
octoberpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2023/02/
February 2023 – Piekniewski's blog
februarypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2019/07/26/civilization-from-scratch/
Civilization from scratch – Piekniewski's blog
This post is not about AI and not about winter. I have a few of those coming, but this one is about something different. I hope you don't mind. A friend of...
civilizationscratchpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2016/10/
October 2016 – Piekniewski's blog
octoberpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2019/01/13/fooled-by-data/
Fooled by data – Piekniewski's blog
Every rule of thumb in data science has a counterexample. Including this one. In this post I'd like to explore several simple and low dimensional examples that...
fooleddatapiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/04/03/the-complexity-of-simplicity/
The complexity of simplicity – balancing on the Occam’s razor – Piekniewski's blog
While rereading my recent post [the meta-parameter slot machine], as well as a few papers suggested by the readers in the comments, I've realized several...
complexitysimplicitybalancingrazorpiekniewski
https://blog.piekniewski.info/who-am-i/
Who am I? – Piekniewski's blog
As it might be apparent from the content of this blog, I'm interested in AI applied to physical reality in the form of robotics and autonomous behavior. Here...
piekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/02/26/self-made-time-capsule-part-2/
Self made time capsule, part 2. – Piekniewski's blog
In my previous post I described the hardware components of my self made time capsule/home server. It consisted of the Intel NUC micro-PC, Netgear managed 1GBps...
self madetime capsulepartpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/02/09/a-v-safety-2018-update/
Autonomous vehicle safety myths and facts, 2018 update – Piekniewski's blog
A year ago I wrote a post summarizing the disengagement data that the state of California requires from the companies developing Autonomous Vehicles. The...
autonomous vehiclesafetymythsfactsupdate
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2019/05/
May 2019 – Piekniewski's blog
maypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/02/26/some-new-ideas-for-ai-benchmarks/
Some new ideas for AI benchmarks – Piekniewski's blog
Those who regularly read my blog are aware that I'm a bit skeptical of the current AI
new ideasai benchmarkspiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/04/13/ai-confuses-intelligent/
Intelligence confuses the intelligent – Piekniewski's blog
This post again about the definition of AI. It was provoked by a certain tweet exchange where it turned out again that everybody understand the term AI...
intelligenceconfusesintelligentpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2020/04/13/deflaition/
DeflAition – Piekniewski's blog
I've started contemplating this post in mid February 2020 while driving back from Phoenix to San Diego, a few miles after passing Yuma, while staring into the...
piekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/05/28/ai-winter-is-well-on-its-way/
AI winter is well on its way – Piekniewski's blog
Deep learning has been at the forefront of the so called AI revolution for quite a few years now, and many people had believed that it is the silver bullet...
aiwinterwellwaypiekniewski
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2016/07/
July 2016 – Piekniewski's blog
julypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/category/sysadmin/
Sysadmin – Piekniewski's blog
Linux, bash, sendmail and such crap.
sysadminpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2016/05/
May 2016 – Piekniewski's blog
maypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/06/20/rebooting-ai-postulates/
Rebooting AI – postulates – Piekniewski's blog
In recent weeks I've been forced to reformulate and distill my views on AI. After my winter post went viral many people contacted me over email and on twitter...
rebootingaipiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/10/
October 2017 – Piekniewski's blog
octoberpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2016/11/15/ai-and-the-ludic-fallacy/
AI and the ludic fallacy – Piekniewski's blog
Ludic Fallacy I enjoyed Nassim Nicolas Taleb books and like his style of calling out some of the - let's put it mildly - misconceptions in theoretical approach...
ailudicfallacypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2019/10/
October 2019 – Piekniewski's blog
octoberpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2024/04/01/fat-tails-are-weird/
Fat tails are weird – Piekniewski's blog
If you have taken a statistics class it may have included stuff like basic measure theory. Lebesgue measures and integrals and their relations to other means...
fattailsweirdpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/05/
May 2017 – Piekniewski's blog
maypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2021/05/12/ai-mid-2021/
Ai mid 2021. Self driving car meets reality. – Piekniewski's blog
The pandemic has largely overwhelmed the news cycle over the past year and hence influencing and largely deflating the AI hype train. There were a few...
self driving caraimidmeetsreality
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2020/12/30/ai-update-late-2020-dumpster-fire/
AI Update, Late 2020 – dumpster fire – Piekniewski's blog
2020 is a very strange year and a dumpster fire in many respects. Everything is still holding together but it feels like the news we get are just progressively...
ai updatelatedumpsterfirepiekniewski
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2019/02/
February 2019 – Piekniewski's blog
februarypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/02/
February 2018 – Piekniewski's blog
februarypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2016/08/12/how-close-are-we-to-vision/
Just how close are we to solving vision? – Piekniewski's blog
There is a lot of hype today about deep learning, a class of multilayer perceptrons with some 5-20 layers featuring convolutional and polling layers. Many...
closesolvingvisionpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2016/04/
April 2016 – Piekniewski's blog
aprilpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2022/12/09/what-actually-is-statistics/
What actually is statistics? – Piekniewski's blog
In the modern era of computers and data science, there is a ton of things discussed that are of
actuallystatisticspiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/09/
September 2017 – Piekniewski's blog
septemberpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2019/10/29/reviewing-rebooting-ai/
Reviewing Rebooting AI – Piekniewski's blog
Welcome back. First of all, apologies for not posting as frequently as I used to. As you might imagine, blogging is not my full time job and I'm currently...
reviewingrebootingaipiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/05/
May 2018 – Piekniewski's blog
maypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/07/02/silent-constancy/
Silent immobility – Piekniewski's blog
I have a few AI related posts in the pipeline, but before I publish them (most still need some work), I want to share my recent experience and some thoughts on...
silentpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2019/11/25/the-musings-of-a-transformer/
The musings of a transformer – Piekniewski's blog
Earlier last week I posted a poll on twitter asking If my readers would like me to post a GPT generated article. The votes were very evenly distributed: The...
musingstransformerpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/10/25/optimality-technology-fragility/
Optimality, technology and fragility. – Piekniewski's blog
This post is a bit of a mixed bag about technology and fragility, a bit about AI and tiny bit on politics. You've been warned. Intro Back in the communist and...
technologyfragilitypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2023/01/02/science-dogma-and-mysteries/
Science, dogma and mysteries. – Piekniewski's blog
I was raised in a rational family, with strong belief in science. When I got my masters degree a was pretty much convinced that we generally know everything...
sciencedogmamysteriespiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2019/04/07/deep-learning-and-shallow-data/
Deep learning and shallow data – Piekniewski's blog
Many people these days are fascinated by deep learning, as it enabled new capabilities in many areas, particularly in computer vision. Deep nets are however...
deep learningshallowdatapiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2021/12/18/farcical-self-delusion/
Farcical Self-Delusion – Piekniewski's blog
It's time for another post in the Tesla FSD series, which is a part of a general self driving car debacle discussed in this blog since 2016 [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. In...
selfdelusionpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2016/12/
December 2016 – Piekniewski's blog
decemberpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/08/28/fun-numbers-about-the-brain/
Some fun numbers about the human brain – Piekniewski's blog
Since it is fashionable these days to compare the performance of connectionist models with humans (even though these models, often referred to as deep learning...
human brainfunnumberspiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2017/02/
February 2017 – Piekniewski's blog
februarypiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/12/
December 2018 – Piekniewski's blog
decemberpiekniewskiblog
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2018/10/13/deep-learning-the-why-question/
Deep learning – the “why” question. – Piekniewski's blog
There are many many deep learning models out there doing various things. Depending on the exact task they are solving, they may be constructed differently....
deep learningquestionpiekniewskiblog