Onwards, 2024.
For my presentation at the annual DMLF meeting,
''AI & Alan Turing'', read on here.
In October, autumn followed, see here.
Emergent [1], like
everything else in the world...,
from something else, or nothing, see here.
Indeed, it is a strange world out there. So, we should
all make plans to prepare ourselves for what lies ahead...
Perhaps, with a little help from ChatGPT.
For more about Large Language Models, and a little bit about Holland,
see impressions from my January 2024 trip to
Rotterdam,
here & here.
And lets not forget the robots, they are also part of our (coming) world.
See my report from a trip to a robot warehouse
(A little unsure about it all? Well, take a look at RoboPhilosophy 2024).
See, also, my report from Edinburgh, Scotland, with a meeting
with Ameca, a humanoid robot.
Finally, how to, make field painting fast, fun, and flawless...
with robots...
See here.
AI & Alan Turing.
At the annual DMLF meeting (IT Teachers meeting),
I gave a presentation about ''AI & Alan Turing''.
Munkebjerg, Vejle. September 28th, 2023.
Slides from the presentation are attached here:
AI & Alan Turing (e).
The title for my part was later changed to (something like)
''AI in industry & education, with a little help from Alan Turing,
in order to find a way''...
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
AI & Alan Turing (Via).
March 14th, 2024.
Again, in March, I gave a presentation
about ''AI & Alan Turing''.
This time at ''VIA University College'', Aarhus.
The audience were ''Industry 4.0'' classes (spring 2024),
enrolled in the (Pba) Value Chain Management program.
Slides from the presentation can be seen here:
AI & Alan Turing (Via Presentation) (e).
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Autumn 2023.
October 2023. Autumn holidays.
Chilly. København, Denmark.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Horror Vacui.
Horror Vacui (Latin, fear of empty space)
goes back to Aristotelian physics,
where the thinking was that natural forces tries to fill empty space with matter.
After Newton (1687), we were
supposed to have left many of these Aristotelian concepts beyond.
But, well, perhaps not entirely.
In the book ''The theory about Nothing'' (A book about the theoretical physicist
Holger Bech Nielsen, and his theories),
we learn that ''nothing''
is everything but ''nothing'', and that all sorts
of weird things
can happen in the vacuum (''nothing'').
The horrors (in the book) start with the Reeh–Schlieder theorem from 1961.
Any state ∣Ψ≻ can be approximated to arbitrary precision by acting on the vacuum with an operator selected from the local algebra, even for ∣Ψ≻ that contain excitations arbitrarily far away in space. In this sense, states created by applying elements of the local algebra to the vacuum state are not localized to the region Ο.
In the book, we learn that ''You can make measurements, in the vacuum, a certain way
(given more time, than has existed in the Universe though...),
that could
enforce the appearance of an elephant...(somewhere else)''.
I.e. in the vacuum there is a little bit of everything. Even the tiny (wave)
amplitude of an elephant.
Because of entanglement, the measurement of an elephant in the vaccum correspond
to a real elephant somewhere else...
Whenever we measure something we change it.
And when we measeure something in the vacuum, the vacuum is no longer empty...
Indeed, it is possible to make positrons and electrons pop out of vacuum,
just by doing something, a measurement, to the vacuum, nearby.
Elephants might be next ...
...
Things emerge from nothing.
The whole Universe is emergent...
Indeed, according to the book, it might not be such a big problem that consciousness
apparently ''emerges'' from something else?
Everything ''emerges''...
Much from nothing.
Perhaps, as other physicists say, computing
something...
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Friendly ChatGPT Plans.
ChatGPT would like to see itself as your friend...
Useful, informative and friendly:
It is also eager to help you out with your plans... (December 2023).
But, well, making plans, that is a difficult thing...
Well, well...
There is something wrong here...
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Testing ChatGPT4, March 2024.
March 11th, 2024.
The chatbots improve, dramatically, all the time...
But, there are still problems...
And now, something about monkeys and bananas:
Well, well...
As Peter meets 2 talking monkeys, this was not the answer we were looking for...
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Testing ChatGPT-o1-Preview,
September 2024.
September 14th, 2024.
The chatbots improve, dramatically, all the time...
Now, some of the problems, from earlier models (back in March),
appears to be fixed
(with the September release ChatGpt-o1-Preview)...
Well, well...It is getting better ...
Indeed, the plan is now pretty much correct...
Still, notice that I didn't ask for a lunchbreak, but got one on all days,
except Tuesday and Thursday?
The timeinterval between different activities Saturday and Sunday
doesn't appear to be super consistent?
Read more (from my ''reasoning'' testing) here.
Reasoning and the ChatGPT4-o1-Preview model...
According to OpenAI, ''o1 is a new large language model
trained with reinforcement learning to perform complex reasoning''...
So, what about this problem:
Well, ChatGPT-o1's reasoning powers still isn't on a super human level...,
when it comes to
reasoning from first principles
(September 2024)...
(Where: First principles thinking is the practice of questioning every assumption
you think you know about a given problem, then creating new solutions from scratch).
Read more (from my ''reasoning'' testing) here.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Amsterdam. January 2024.
Visit to Codam Coding College.
January 2024.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Amsterdam:
On the Codam Coding College homepage it reads:
The students at Codam Coding College learn programming through our unique peer-to-peer educational model.
We cover students' tuition fees, there are no teachers and we are open 24/7!
Our core mission is to prepare the next generation for the jobs of today,
and tomorrow, by offering high quality and scalable software engineering education!
More Amsterdam impressions:
''Amsterdam is een heerlijke stad om te verlaten en ààn te komen''.
Simon Carmiggelt.
Something along the lines of ''Amsterdam is a wonderful city to leave and arrive in''.
Looking at Amsterdam canals, everything appears to be pretty idyllic.
Still, mayor Femke Halsema is apparently not satisfied,
and has vowed to clean up the mess [2], [3].
And, well, life goes on, and tourists come and go.
It was time to take a look at the Rembrandt house.
Inside the Rembrandt house:
Amsterdam Centraal:
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Rotterdam. January 2024.
Visit to Rotterdam Universiteit. January 2024.
Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
In connection with a great Erasmus+ cooperation project about Large Language Models.
Taking a closer look at:
Large Language Models in education, at Rotterdam Universiteit
(Erasmian Language
Model.
Center for Data Analytics & Dept. for Media and
Communication).
We also saw a little bit of Rotterdam.
Impressions from Rotterdam, below...
Rotterdam Centraal.
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Iffr:
Delftse Poort, Rotterdam.
Statue of Bep van Klaveren in Rotterdam.
Bep van Klaveren was a Dutch boxer, from Rotterdam, who won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.
Rotterdam Universiteit:
View (from Rotterdam) towards Delft and Den Hague.
Rotterdam.
Market Hall, Rotterdam [4].
Cube House, Rotterdam [5].
''Where each house represents a tree, and all the houses together, a forest''
House boat, Rotterdam.
Willem.
Rotterdam Centraal:
Moments contained [6].
''Gifted to the city by the philanthropic foundation Droom en Daad, which aims to beautify urban areas, the bronze statue, four metres tall, entitled Moments Contained, is dedicated to the representation of minorities, particularly Black women, in public spaces''.
Rotterdam Centraal Station.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Visit to Proshops robot-warehouse.
March 1st, 2024, and it was time for the field trip to Proshops robot-warehouse,
in Holme, Aarhus,
that I had been thinking about for some time.
After the excursion, I posted a report about it all on the Eaaa intranet.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
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SF Books, spring 2024.
(Science fiction) reading material, March 2024.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
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Berlin MlCon presentation.
April 18th, 2024.
In April, I gave a presentation (at Eaaa)
about the ''ML Conference in Berlin''
(I attended the conference back in November 2023).
Slides from the (April) presentation can be seen here:
Berlin ML Conference (Nov. 2023) (e).
For more about the Ml Conference, see here.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Digital Assistants and more.
Visit from Artevelde, Gent.
April 15th.
Sander Cornelis (with students), from Artevelde, Gent (Belgium),
visited Eaaa, and talked about digital assistants,
and more.
I posted about it on the Eaaa intranet.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Generative AI Day, May 17th.
At the ''Generative AI day'', May 17th, 2024, at Eaaa,
a number of ''student AI projects'' were presented.
I was mentor for a project about ''Diagnosis of tomato leaf diseases''
(Inspired by similar projects, found on the internet, like
''A real-time application-based convolutional neural network
approach for tomato leaf disease classification'' [7]).
Here, me and Mike, at the Eaaa presentation.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
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RoboPhilosophy. August 2024.
RoboPhilosophy 2024, Aarhus University.
August 2024.
Participated August 20-21, 2024, in the RoboPhilosophy Conference,
Aarhus University.
Social Robots with AI.
Prospects, Risks, and Responsible Methods.
The conference started with a talk by Wendell Wallach,
''Re-envioning ethics. From moral machines to extensive regulation''.
See, also the Wallach book: ''Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong''.
All, interesting, indeed.
Daniel Estrada talked about ''Can a robot hand grasp?.
Moving away from corporate hype, and into concepts such as
Things do become a lot more complicated...,
and then you can't really say that a robot hand grasp (in the same way as a human hand).
Clearly!
Sherry Turkle was not able to travel
to Aarhus,
but her talk (''Who do we become when we talk to machines'')
was presented by a colleague from her lab.
According to Turkle:
We forget what is special about being human. We forget what it means to have authentic conversation. Machines are programmed to have conversations ''as if'' they understood what the conversations are about.
In a real conversation:
- We reveal ourselves.
- We are present.
Etc.
Of course... :)
AI in Wars:
In a workshop it was all about ''Death by Algorithm''.
Jus ad bellum:
Whether a war is conducted justly, and lawfully.
A tricky subject, where:
- It is ok to kill 18 y.o. conscripts.
- Mass deaths can be legal and jusified.
- But it is not ok to kill a civilian propagandist, who might have started the war.
- But how do you surrender to machine?
- Will machines respect soldiers that wave a white flag?
- Will soldiers follow orders given to them by an AI?
- Will soldiers die for an AI commander (they respect)?
Indeed, time will tell.
David Chalmers was with us through a video link to his home in NYC
(For real-life meetings with Chalmers, see Assc 25, section 2.1., left in the picture,
and Constructing the World, David J. Chalmers meets critics).
Here, the talk was about ''Can Social AI systems extend the mind''.
Obviously, a great talk!
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Edinburgh. August 2024.
Trip to Edinburgh. August 2024.
Watch on Youtube.
Highland bagpipe, preparations. Edinburgh, Scotland.
David Hume statue, Edinburgh.
David Hume statue, Edinburgh.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Meeting Ameca, at the Robotarium
(Edinburgh, Scotland).
Meeting Ameca, at the Robotarium
(Edinburgh, Scotland), August 2024.
See video from our visit on Youtube.
See video from our visit on Youtube.
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
On the pitch, with robots...
October 11th, 2024.
Robots can now make field painting fast, fun, and flawless...
(Impressions from a trip, with students,
to TinyMobileRobots headquarters outside Aarhus).
Indeed, the robots are moving onwards...
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net
Autumn 2024.
October 2024.
October/November. And back to work,
with a lot of Zoom calls...
-Simon
Simon Laub (Let me Google that for you).
www.simonlaub.net