Artificial Creativity

Artificial Creativity

By Dennis HackethalTechnology
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Artificial Creativity episodes

  • 11 – Sam Harris And Judea Pearl
    References:
    “Making Sense” podcast episode with Sam Harris and Judea Pearl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNDvhFbMD0s
    Popper, “Objective Knowledge”
    - Chapter 1 “Conjectural Knowledge: My Solution of the Problem of Induction”
    - Chapter 7 “Evolution and the Tree of Knowledge”
    Popper, “Conjectures and Refutations”, chapter 1 “Science: Conjectures and Refutations”
    David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity”, chapter 2 “Closer to Reality”
    15 min
  • 10 – Of Books and Code
    References:
    David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity”:
    - Chapter 1, “The Reach of Explanations”
    - Chapter 2, “Closer to Reality”
    - Chapter 6, “The Jump to Universality”
    - Chapter 7, “Artificial Creativity”
    Facebook research on open-endedness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4500&v=g6HiuEnbwJE
    OpenAI press release about Microsoft investment: https://openai.com/blog/microsoft/
    22 min
  • 09 – The Problem Of Specification
    References:
    - David Deutsch, “How Close Are We to Creating Artificial Intelligence”, https://aeon.co/essays/how-close-are-we-to-creating-artificial-intelligence
    - David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity”, chapter 7, “Artificial Creativity”
    - Karl Popper, “Of Cloud and Clocks”, chapter 6 of “Objective Knowledge”
    - Brett Hall on David’s chapter “Artificial Creativity” in “The Beginning of Infinity” part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taRSfDmBwts and part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIwZLL67V68 (part 2 especially goes into remaining problems with evolutionary algorithms I have outlined)
    - John Koza, “Genetic Programming”, chapter 9: “Nonrandomness of Genetic Programming” and chapter 28: “Spontaneous Emergence of Self-Replicating and Evolutionarily Self-Improving Computer Programs”
    If you have any questions or comments, please leave them here or tweet at me: https://twitter.com/dchackethal
    17 min
  • 08 – Problems
    References
    - David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity”, chapter 1, “The Reach of Explanations”
    - Karl Popper, “The Unknown Xenophanes” (in “The World of Parmenides”)
    If you have any questions or comments, please leave them here or tweet at me: twitter.com/dchackethal
    18 min
  • 07 – Q&A
    Further reading:
    David Deutsch: “The Beginning of Infinity”, chapter 1, “The Reach of Explanations”
    Karl Popper:
    - On verisimilitude: “Conjectures and Refutations”, chapter “Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Knowledge”, section “Truth and Content: Verisimilitude versus Probability”
    - On the conflation of probability and verisimilitude: “Back to the Presocratics”
    - On problems with verisimilitude: “Objective Knowledge” appendix 2
    12 min
  • 06 – Function Replication
    This episode relies heavily on video components, so you’ll want to watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRaR3LOn1JQ
    References
    - David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity”, chapter 16, “The Evolution of Creativity”
    Further reading
    - David Deutsch, “The Fabric of Reality”
    - David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity”, chapter 7, “Artificial Creativity”
    22 min
  • 05 – Knowledge in Computer Programs
    This episode relies heavily on video components, so you’ll want to watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHR6roiZjQ8
    Apologies for the audio quality in this episode; it varies and cuts out sometimes.
    References
    - David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity” chapter 10, “A Dream of Socrates”
    - Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time”
    - David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity” chapter 7, “Artificial Creativity”
    - David Deutsch, “The Fabric of Reality” chapter 6, “Universality and the Limits of Computation”
    Further reading
    - QuickCheck: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck
    - “Turtles all the way down” concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
    - “Why is the Quantum so Strange?” - interview with David explaining computation (among other things): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckuBQC6gKU
    - The Clojure programming language: https://clojure.org/
    If you have any questions or comments, please leave them here or tweet at me: https://twitter.com/dchackethal
    38 min
  • 04 – How Do We Know?
    References:
    David Deutsch, “The Beginning of Infinity”, chapters:
    - 1 “The Reach of Explanations”
    - 4 “Creation”
    - 15 “The Evolution of Culture”
    - 16 “The Evolution of Creativity”
    Further reading:
    - Karl Popper, “Back to the Presocratics”
    If you have any questions or comments, please leave them here or tweet at me: twitter.com/dchackethal
    23 min

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Podcast named after chapter 7 of David Deutsch's "The Beginning of Infinity". Trying to understand the mind using Popperian and Deutschian ideas!