I’m a mathematician and independent researcher working on artificial general intelligence and the automated design of machines. To describe the shape of the problem, I’ve been posting notes on various technical details; feedback is welcome! In particular, if you’re a neuroscientist or machine learning researcher, I’d love to hear from you.
You can reach me at sid@sidmani.com, or on twitter.
Writing
Artificial intelligence
Math
Sci-fi and speculation
- Old technology as a totem
- Some examples of techno-worship in science fiction
- Consumption
- What is \( \lim_{t \rightarrow \infty} \) of “software is eating the world”?
- Names
- The name given to an object exchanges meaning with the object itself
Japanese
Research interests
- Artificial general intelligence
- Will deep learning ever lead to real AGI? (I don’t think so)
- How does the brain work?
- Is connectionism a useful model?
- What happens inside the neuron?
- How is data stored?
- Vision
- Is there a way to represent 3D objects in memory that respects geometry, part decomposition and semantics?
- Computation and the physical world
- What is computation?
- The physical Church-Turing thesis: can all physical systems be simulated on a Turing machine?
- How can we test the hypothesis that the universe is a simulation?
Projects
- Quasar jet simulator
- Simulate the helical jets of active galactic nuclei, with relativistic effects, in your browser!