“Three conceptual errors commonly made by classical AI researchers are presuming the presence of monolithic internal models, monolithic control, and the existence of general purpose processing. These and other errors primarily derive from naive models based on subjective observation and introspection, and biases from common computational metaphors (mathematical logic, Von Neumann architectures, etc.). A modern […]
Hearing those words makes me feel like I’m tied mutely to a railway track, unable to scream for help as a train thunders towards me. We humans are walking sacks of blood, bile and bias, and estimating how long things will take brings out the worst in us. A product manager recently asked me if one can […]
I code compulsively and with great delight. Writing software is like weaving a magical spell, something out of nothing. I’ve worked on a mix of consumer, web, scientific and open source software projects. Here are a few. Repositories I’m gregdetre on GitHub (currently all hidden in private repositories). My most recent open source work was produced […]
I finished my PhD in neuroscience in 2010, working in Ken Norman‘s Computational Memory lab at Princeton. Jump to: summary of PhD work on forgetting scientific publications teaching Weakening memories by half-remembering them For my PhD thesis, I worked on a series of behavioral and fMRI memory experiments to understand a little more about forgetting, called ‘Weakening memories by half-remembering […]
In a not-so-distant dystopia, you might be placed in a brain scanner to test whether you’re telling the truth. Here’s how to cheat. The polygraph First, you’ll need some background on old-school lie-detection technology. [This is a simplified story – see polygraphs for a richer account.] Polygraphs are seismographs for the nervous system. They measure […]
Greg Detre 