35 Comments
Jul 28, 2022Liked by Alberto Romero

I find it hard to imagine which areas in the economy and/or culture are most likely to experience the technology -- which I am defining as Artificial *General* Intelligence -- over the next few years. The problem of course is that the very concept of "General" makes it hard to focus on specific applications.

So I would be very interested in your speculations as to where AGI is likely to matter over the next few years.

Expand full comment
Aug 4, 2022Liked by Alberto Romero

The AI application that would matter the most to me personally would be a significant upgrade in the NLR level achieved by voice and/or text assistants. That would make a deep and immediate change in how I spend my day. I have no idea when anything like this is likely to happen. One year? Ten?

Expand full comment

Why or why not will ByteDance (TikTok) continue to innovate and disrupt Meta and the AI behind it?

Expand full comment
Jul 28, 2022Liked by Alberto Romero

From my point of view, the writings of AI could be on an ample set of perspectives such as: a) research and development trends, b) current state of the art innovation and technologies, c) speculative and futuristic, d) essays or deep writings on AI impact on philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and society at all, and many more. I have been a fan reader of your writings, and I found you indeed have covered all these perspectives.

My personal interest is more oriented to (d), on how AI is already impacting our life and our society on a day-to-day basis, how it is affecting how we perceive, how we socialize and interact, how do we do our jobs and tasks, how do we benefit in our health and many more. (I occasionally write on the cyberpsychology subject)

I understand that you write for an ample audience with ample interests and preferences. But my feedback, and ideas on what I want you to write about, it would like you write on AI actual and foreseeable impact in society, personal life, and the body of knowledge on philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, digital health just to name a few. AI algorithms are really everywhere in our lives, without even us noticing that.

Thanks for your excelent writings :)

Expand full comment

If AI is supposed to become more intelligent than humans, how are we supposed to start imagining what AI can do in future? Is it beyond comprehending based on current human Intelligence?

Expand full comment

Consider the materials in chapters 9, 8, and 7 on https://experimental-epistemology.ai

And perhaps the whole site. A lot of it is news to many people, even among practitioners.

Expand full comment
Jul 28, 2022·edited Jul 28, 2022Liked by Alberto Romero

I noticed that you started generating your blogpost images using Midjourney. Do you see yourself permanently switching from stock photography to generative AI? Also, on a scale from 1 to 10, how happy are you with the controllability of current text-to-image models like DALLE-2 or Midjourney? How much time do you spend prompt engineering?

Expand full comment

How did Huggingface code help address NLP tasks?

Expand full comment