Image generated by ArtMyko using Midjourney The belief that science means observable and repeatable experiments, which began with Descartes in the seventeenth century, is, to this extent, over. Global understanding is, by contrast, based on computational models supported by a knowledge infrastructure. — How to See the World, Nicolas Mirzoeff The Arabic numeral system … [Read more...] about The Evolution Of Science: From Descartes To Generative AI
Part 3. AI — A New Approach to Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Credit: [1] “…it is the scale of physics where life emerges, but that life itself is a broader phenomenon recurring across different scales, from chemistry to cells to societies–which more generally concerns the interactions of information (an abstract property) with matter.” [2] In Part 1 of this series I discussed how artificial intelligence (AI) has … [Read more...] about Part 3. AI — A New Approach to Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Part 2. Generative AI: It Could Redefine “The Theory of Knowledge”
Credit: DALL-E 2 “The contemplation in natural science of a wider domain than the actual leads to a far better understanding of the actual.” — Sir Arthur Eddington In Part 1 of this series, I said “I will refrain from saying that Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the basis for a third school of epistemology”, but recently, I read about the challenges in … [Read more...] about Part 2. Generative AI: It Could Redefine “The Theory of Knowledge”
Part 1. Generative AI: Every Problem is an Information Problem
Image from https://beta.dreamstudio.ai/dream “But the overall pattern is clear: in case after case, when a model can be created and tested, it tends to perform as well as, or better than, human experts making similar decisions. Too often, we continue to rely on human judgment when machines can do better.” — Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson [1] The writer David Foster … [Read more...] about Part 1. Generative AI: Every Problem is an Information Problem