data : observations, could be actively or passively acquired (meta-data).
model : assumptions, based on previous experience (other data! transfer learning etc), or beliefs about the regularities of the universe. Inductive bias.
prediction : an action to be taken or a categorization or a quality score.
E.g. least squares \[\errorFunction(\boldsymbol{\beta}, \dataMatrix, \inputMatrix) = \sum_{i=1}^\numData \left(\dataScalar_i - \mappingFunction(\inputVector_i, \boldsymbol{\beta})\right)^2.\]
Two Components
Prediction function, \(\mappingFunction(\cdot)\)
Objective function, \(\errorFunction(\cdot)\)
Deep Learning
These are interpretable models: vital for disease modeling etc.
Modern machine learning methods are less interpretable
Example: face recognition
DeepFace
Outline of the DeepFace architecture. A front-end of a single convolution-pooling-convolution filtering on the rectified input, followed by three locally-connected layers and two fully-connected layers. Color illustrates feature maps produced at each layer. The net includes more than 120 million parameters, where more than 95% come from the local and fully connected.
Automated decision making within the computer based only on the data.
Subjective biases need to be better understood.
Particularly important where treatments are being prescribed.
Interventions could be far more subtle.
Societal Effects
Shift in dynamic:
from direct human-data to indirect human-computer-data
modern data analysis is mediated by the machine
This change of dynamics gives us the modern and emerging domain of data science
Human Communication
For sale: baby shoes, never worn
Heider and Simmel (1944)
Faith and AI
Artificial Intelligence as Cartoon Religion
Artificial Intelligence and Introspection
Independence of thought and Control: A Systemic Catch 22
Singularianism: AI as Cartoon Religion
Superintelligence as god
Demi-god status achievable through transhumanism
Immortality through uploading the connectome
The day of judgement as the “singularity”
Singularians
Removing the bandwidth limitation: removing our humanity?
{In Singularianism doomsday is the ‘technological singularity’, the moment at which computers rapidly outstrip our capabilities and take over our world. The high priests are the scientists, and the aim is to bring about the latter while restraining the former.
Singularianism and religion equivalent to scientology and science?
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Artificial Intelligence and Introspection
Religion at its most powerful contextualizes us
Creating artificial systems described as intelligence also contextualises us
The Artificial Plant
The Digital Catch 22
For a system to watch over us it first has to watch us
Lawrence, N.D., 2017. Living together: Mind and machine intelligence. arXiv.
Taigman, Y., Yang, M., Ranzato, M., Wolf, L., 2014. DeepFace: Closing the gap to human-level performance in face verification, in: Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2014.220