Santiago Ortiz

language data scientist

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

Take a look into the mind of the machine! visit my new project here: https://t.co/Q8CIvwcsby

I repeated the same completion prompt "Intelligence is " hundreds of times and used this to peer into the statistical and semantic behavior of chatgpt

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

"The secret does not consist in hiding the trick, but in making the spectator stop wanting to search for it, so that they can experience the emotion of the impossible." Juan Tamariz

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@MemoriasPez @revenergetica Se entiende la ironía, pero la comparación que Javier hace es con el récord anterior, no con otros días del año.

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@sandro_pozzi @ASTROAVA por favor no ayuden a promover desinformación, estos videos con IA están completamente errados, ustedes deberían haberlo detectado al instante.

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

@sandro_pozzi engañando y desinformando con IA

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

Penrose, Hofstadter and so may other western thinkers define consciousness as whatever resembles their scientific and -in their views- culturally elevated minds.

Charming except not. It's an ideology for arguing that you and your like are superior to others.

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

Penrose's argument, in a nutshell, is that since humans can understand Goedel's theorem, consciousness is uncomputable and physics incomplete. I've always found it quite charming, the idea that understanding Goedel's theorem is an indicator for consciousness, seeing how few people actually understand Goedel's theorem.

In any case, the argument from Goedel's theorem is why, I believe, Penrose thinks that the measurement process in quantum mechanics is relevant for human consciousness. Because it's the only place in the foundations where you can fumble in some new physics that is plausibly relevant in the human brain. Hence the story with the microtubules. And if you believe that, then AI can't be conscious because it's algorithmic. Though presumably a quantum computer could be conscious, if it emuluates the quantum process that is supposedly relevant for consciousness.

(Penrose's model for wavefunction collapse by gravity is totally computable and actually does not fit that narrative.)

Also, I believe Penrose's argument from Goedel's theorem to be technically wrong. It is possible to algorithmically understand (and even prove) Goedel's theorem without violating Goedel's theorem because the theorem itself is a meta-statement about the Goedel sentence(s) and not the sentence itself. In some sense, Penrose's argument is wrong for the same reason Goedel's theorem exists in the first place, that you can make meta-statements about statements. In fact there have been computer-generated symbolic proofs of Goedel's theorem long before the AI boom.

It's not that I have an obsession with Penrose in particular, it just so happens that my interests have a big overlap with his. I have an interview with Penrose in my 2022 book "Existential Physics" on these and related problems.

https://t.co/PB8d8Vidkq

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

@rodrigogpeinado La protuberancia a la izquierda me dejó marcado, lo más impresionante que he visto en mi vida. La sensación que me generó, una angustia de ver una explosión cósmica, algo que pasa en el sol, nuestra estrella, normalmente tan perfecta. El color absurdo, como la sangre de un astro.

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

@rodrigogpeinado ¡A mi me pasó lo mismo! Pero en cambio 9 años antes, cuando asistí al total en Oregon, fue al revés, el eclipse parcial demoró muchísimo, el tiempo se alargó. Y lo curioso es que lo mismo sintieron mis hijos entonces.

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

Perfect spot in Castilla La Mancha to experience 1min 10s of absurdity.

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Eclipsed Sun spots

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Longer focal distance, eye close to the mini-eclipse. Next year I'll come with more improvements.

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@matthen2 I'd call this the pizza and beer solution.

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@pickover Hey @pickover ! check this version: https://t.co/6IAvWIBy2G

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@hoyenelcosmos Antes era conciencia en el experimento de la rendija, hora es conciencia en algoritmos de inteligencia artificial.

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

Very different paths to the final.

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Does Argentina love to suffer?

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

"Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover."

―Bertrand Russell, An Outline of Philosophy

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

IoT

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

I vividly remember this moment. WC 82, France vs. Kuwait. Prince Fahad, escorted by military, asks for a invalidating a goal, the referee conceded. Adults explained me that with money and power you can bend the rules. The lesson I learned at 7, other kids are learning it today.

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

@pickover The mirror test for ants: https://t.co/061TDY6WYb

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

Fractals, at least the name, have my age. I do remember hearing of them (was I 10?) as a recent discovery, a novelty in math, a new way to think about nature.

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

Celebrate! 51 years ago, Benoit Mandelbrot coined the word "fractal." He introduced the term in his book "Les Objets Fractals: Forme, Hasard et Dimension" (1975) to describe self-similar geometric structures.

In honor of his work, I computed this Mandelbrot Set fractal for you.