{"id":83237,"date":"2018-10-03T04:42:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T11:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-cipher-of-intelligence"},"modified":"2018-10-03T04:42:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T11:42:27","slug":"the-cipher-of-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/the-cipher-of-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"The Cipher of Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-cipher-of-intelligence2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If simulating the brain is proving tricky, why don\u2019t we try decoding it?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<blockquote name=\"4308\" id=\"4308\" class=\"\"><p><em class=\"\">\u201cThere\u2019s a good reason the first flying machines weren\u2019t mechanical bats: people tried that, and they were terrible.\u201d \u2014 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/darpa-ai-mimic-human-brain\" data-href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/darpa-ai-mimic-human-brain\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Robitzski<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the current <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/20\/google-ai-spring\/\" data-href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/20\/google-ai-spring\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI Spring<\/a>, many people and corporations are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2017\/03\/27\/these-3-companies-are-making-big-bets-on-ai.aspx\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2017\/03\/27\/these-3-companies-are-making-big-bets-on-ai.aspx\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">betting big<\/a> that the capabilities of deep learning algorithms will continue to improve as the algorithms are fed more data. Their faith is backed by the miracles performed by such algorithms: they can see, listen and do a thousand other things that were previously considered too difficult for AI.<\/p>\n<p>Our guest for the third episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/singularitynet.io\/podcast\/\" data-href=\"https:\/\/singularitynet.io\/podcast\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AGI Podcast<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mindfire.global\/team\/#intro\" data-href=\"https:\/\/mindfire.global\/team\/#intro\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pascal Kaufmann<\/a>, <strong class=\"\">is amongst those who believe such faith in deep learning is misplaced<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.singularitynet.io\/the-cipher-of-intelligence-3d4a81dee4da\">https:\/\/blog.singularitynet.io\/the-cipher-of-intelligence-3d4a81dee4da<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If simulating the brain is proving tricky, why don\u2019t we try decoding it? \u201cThere\u2019s a good reason the first flying machines weren\u2019t mechanical bats: people tried that, and they were terrible.\u201d \u2014 Dan Robitzski In the current AI Spring, many people and corporations are betting big that the capabilities of deep learning algorithms will continue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":472,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}