There are several different kinds of generative AI, but they all share three key elements. This may be surprising, since when we read some generative AI (Gen-AI) papers, we might find that one or another of these elements is not mentioned at all, or is hidden deep in the text. Some Gen-AI systems use neural… Continue reading Self-Study Guide: Stat Mech and Gen AI
Author: AJ Maren
Neural Net and Backpropagation Basics
If you’re new to neural networks and artificial intelligence, one of the first (and most essential) steps is to thoroughly (1) understand the architecture and processing of a Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and to (2) master backpropagation. You can do this within a single weekend. Ideally, by the end of this weekend, you will have completed… Continue reading Neural Net and Backpropagation Basics
Get People to Read Your Paper: Five Vids and a Template
If you’re writing a research paper and you want to have the best possible professional style, these five YouTube vids and a free MS Wd (TM) .docx template will help you craft an outcome that helps you present yourself as a top-tier professional! The YouTubes presented here will give you essential tips and techniques that… Continue reading Get People to Read Your Paper: Five Vids and a Template
Three Strategies to Improve Job Search Success
Whether we have a safe, comfortable, and secure job – and just desire the next level, or absolutely NEED a job, as soon as possible – we need a job search strategy. In this post, we reveal three strategies that have worked for others, and it makes good sense to base our own job search… Continue reading Three Strategies to Improve Job Search Success
Writing to Get Your Next Job: Five Essential Rules
Whether you’re currently employed, or are actively seeking (as in, job-hunting is your full-time occupation), one of the most important things that you can do is to build your Portfolio. We talked about your Portfolio in this previous blogpost, with examples of how to use GitHub, LinkedIn, and your personal domain as “Portfolio bases.” In… Continue reading Writing to Get Your Next Job: Five Essential Rules
Loyalty, Core Values, and AGI
{* Note from AJM: This blogpost is largely complete – but I’ll be adding more links to prior YouTubes and blogposts within the next 24 hours, connecting this to points made in the accompanying YouTube. AJM – Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025; 4:20 PM Hawai’i time (10:20 PM East Coast). *} If you’ve read Fever Dream… Continue reading Loyalty, Core Values, and AGI
Three “Golden Oldies” Point to AGI
This blogpost accompanies a YouTube video {* still in edit mode, check back for YouTube link coming soon *} in which I review three papers that I’d stashed in my “super-secret-special-storage tote” when I was moving from the mainland to Hawai’i – over ten years ago! For ten years, the “special tote” languished – until… Continue reading Three “Golden Oldies” Point to AGI
How to Prepare for the AGI World: Tools, Pseudo-Persons, and Slaves
The smart survival strategy for each of us is to start thinking and planning now for a world in which there are not just AIs, but AGIs. This will be a very different world. In this blogpost, and in the accompanying YouTube vid (see below), we look at the most essential distinction that we can… Continue reading How to Prepare for the AGI World: Tools, Pseudo-Persons, and Slaves
Significant Step Towards AGI: Verses’ Robotic Planning Horizons
The biggest challenge that we face now is to get beyond the simple combination of LLMs (large language models, including all forms of multimedia models) with RLHF (reinforcement learning with human feedback, or any other form of feedback). Our current methods are pushing the limit of what we can do with some (fairly substantial and… Continue reading Significant Step Towards AGI: Verses’ Robotic Planning Horizons
The Biggest Problem for AI Workers Is “Focus”
OK, I’ll admit – I tend to click on some AI articles offered by my MSN.com feed – enough to ensure that about 30% of all the MSN-offered articles are AI-related. And my Themesis email inbox? (The one that I use as a grab-all for everybody’s EVERYTHING?) That’s full to the point of toppling over,… Continue reading The Biggest Problem for AI Workers Is “Focus”