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  • Amara’s Law and the AI Buildout: Overhyped but Also Underestimated

    Amara’s Law and the AI Buildout: Overhyped but Also Underestimated

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    There are many comparisons being made between the current AI buildout and the Internet and dotcom buildout that started almost 30 years ago and ended in a bust in the early 2000s. Ethan Mollick recently reminded me that Amara’s Law is a useful way to think about this comparison. That is, we tend to overestimate…

  • Welcome to Inferential Loop!

    Welcome to Inferential Loop!

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    Inferential Loop is a place for thinking through artificial intelligence, cognition, reinforcement learning, and computational models of mind. I will use this blog to work through ideas, papers, projects, and questions about how intelligent systems learn, represent knowledge, and reason under uncertainty. The goal is not to present finished answers, but to make the process…