Giants all the way down
Just after the frenetic sprint leading up to a conference deadline, I often end up chastising myself for not being more single-focus in my research. This weekend, while recovering from the ICML deadline, I found myself replaying the same familiar thought patterns: “I want to work deeply on only a couple of projects”, then “What would those be now that the slate is clean”, and finally, realizing that I have listed a half-dozen projects that should start immediately!
How do we search for discovery?
Imagined for centuries, with unimaginable consequences and only examples from nature effortlessly demonstrating what is possible. The invention of flight bears numerous similarities with our on-going search for the discovery of human-level artificial intelligence (AI). Even today, as some of the most brilliant and successful people of our time recede into a type of paranoid fever dream about its dangers, others continue to argue true AI is simply impossible. We have been here before, and come …
