AI Again - It Is All In The Mathematics Not The Marketing Hype

It is quite humbling to try and follow a great mathematician explaining complex subject matter and bringing an analogy to AI, outlining the consequences to what we think know about our use of AI (see link below):  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukpCHo5v-Gc

If you thought you know what AI us and you knew what you were dealing with and how to work with it, then my friend the chances are you are sadly mistaken!

Not killer robots but killer stupidity awaits.

Note to Self: Following this person ... Hannah Fry (Mathematics-Science)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iz6zFt7G3Kc

Interesting Science Info Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/@fryrsquared/shorts

Hannah Fry: Cambridge Mathematician, Science Evangeliser

Note: Panzer Taster - Please avoid the wargamer cringe at the beginning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkSZN-Zs9No

Yes, I may even forgive her for showing images of a T-80, Pz I and a Pz IV Short 75mm which definitely were not worrying Allied planners in 1944) because she is a brilliant mathematics and science educator.

PS: I completely agree with her on the negative hypothesis on AI Agents. 

Cool Maths Lecture on Games - Professor Sarah Hart

Well worth registering and logging in to see this (and best of all it is free). Mathematics for Board Games - a very interesting topic and non-trivial but presented in a easy to digest way (see below, and tell me why was Maths not this interesting at school for me?): 

https://www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/maths-games

Lots more interesting stuff on the site too!

PS: Hope for humans playing Go against AI too:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai/

Audible Book Completed: The Creativity Code by Marcus du Sautoy

Full title - The Creativity Code: How AI Is Learning to Write, Paint and Think, by Marcus di Sautoy (see below, for the sexy artwork that hints at robot domination, without having to show a robot. I listened to it via Audible rather than reading it, but in the end I bought a copy of the book as well, as there were sections in it you really needed to read IMHO - yes, like the ones that mentioned sums I could not do in my head!): 

So, now I have finished listening to this .. it seems to be pointing out that we’ve done lots of quirky things, some of which look and feel impressive .. but we seem to be back in a loop, back to 1990 when Expert Systems (symbolic logic machines) were going to going to transform the world. Deep Learning is now the new flavour of the revolution (Artificial Neural Nets that are trained to be clever) .. but back in 1990 it was not Expert Systems that shaped the Commercial World for teh next twenty plus years. No that was the dirty old Database and Networks which transformed into a brand the new thing called the Internet .. the "What Net" are you going fishing somewhere strange? Yet it dictated the course of computing for the next 20+ years by reinventing the Network to be used by everybody and therefore everybody's concern . My personal opinion of course .. which like most things these days seems to be in the Cloud, running better on someone else's piece of tin.