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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 givedatasettrainshallmove 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