I am getting into the groove of a new form of expression: the rubber duck. I explained more specifically the theory of the rubber duck in the update entitled A test pitch of my ‘Energy Ponds’ business concept. I use mostly videos, where, as I am talking to an imaginary audience, I sharpen (hopefully) my own ideas and the way of getting them across. In this update, I am cutting out some slack from my thinking about the phenomenon of collective intelligence, and my use of neural networks to simulate the way that human, collective intelligence works (yes, it works).
The structure of my updates on this blog changes as my form is changing. Instead of placing the link to my video in like the first subheading of the update, I place it further blow, sort of in conclusion. I prepare my updates with an extensive use of Power Point, in order both to practice a different way of formulating my ideas, and in order to have slides for my video presentation. Together with the link to You Tube, you will find another one, to the Power Point document.
Ad rem, i.e. get the hell to the point, man. I am trying to understand better my own thinking about collective intelligence and the bridging towards artificial intelligence. As I meditate about it, I find an essential phenomenological notion: the droplet of information. With the development of digital technologies, we communicate more and more with some sort of pre-packaged, whoever-is-interested-can-pick-it-up information. Videos on you tube, blogging updates, books, articles are excellent examples thereof. When I talk to the camera of my computer, I am both creating a logical structure for myself, and a droplet of information for other people.
Communication by droplets is fundamentally different from other forms, like meetings, conversations, letters etc. Until recently, and by ‘recently’ I mean like 1990, most organized human structures worked with precisely addressed information. Since we started to grow the online part of our civilization, we have been coordinating more and more with droplet information. It is as if information was working like a hormone. As You Tube swells, we have more and more of that logical hormone accumulated in our civilization.
That’s precisely my point of connection with artificial intelligence. When I observe the way a neural network works (yes, I observe them working step by step, iteration by iteration, as strange as it might seem), I see a structure which uses error as food for learning. Residual local error is to a neural network what, once again, a hormone is to a living organism.
Under the two links below, you will find:
- The Power Point Presentation with slides that accompany the YT video
That would be all for now. If you want to contact me directly, you can mail at: goodscience@discoversocialsciences.com .
