Articles by Alex Kamburov

" Visual perception is the ability to interpret information and surroundings from the effects of visible light reaching the eye. The resulting perception is also known as eyesight, sight, or vision (adjectival form: visual, optical, or ocular)."  Visual perception , Wikipedia We have had optical character recognition (OCR) for years now. Reading can be perceived as an important ability of our visual perception and we have more or less cracked it. What we don't have is the ability to acquire 3D models from a simple 2D camera, just like our eyes can. Or at least I thought so. An article that I read recently has pushed me to google for such type of software. Interestingly enough just a few weeks ago I was thinking about such a system and its (big) importance to AI development. Google provided an article immediately, and it dated from 2009! Creating 3D models with a simple webcam (w/ Video) described a system just like the one that I envisioned and provided a nice vid...

During our lives, while learning about the world, we see that everything is composed of something else. Everything evolves into something else. Things change. And then, there are singularities. Singularities are points of the world that the human cannot perceive into. There is The Big Bang that came from a single point. There are those quantum particles that space is "composed of" (maybe not a good example ^^). All those points hide an unimaginable amount of wow. Maybe those points are even more important than all the unknown worlds and undiscovered features of the world we are somewhat able to observe now. What I thought about today is the " Technological Singularity ". The advancement in speed, intelligence, etc. will ultimately bring humans to a new frontier where a new era will begin. This brings thoughts about the end of all things just like any other singularity out there. It's tempting. Our society is a platform, a test-tube, for those scientific endeavor...

The Universe. It's there. The mind is in the Universe. It's part of the Universe. It's the Universe. We make the abstraction that what we do is decided by us. Just as the Earth can think of herself as orbiting the Sun. Earth is part of the Universe, so are we. All is natural. AGI is in the Universe. It's part of the Universe. It's the Universe. We make the abstraction that if a computer does something that seems intelligent to us, it has a mind similar to ours. What is happening actually? What is all this mumbo jumbo? Can I please have another view on the matter? The U(niverse) can have virtual U(s) in it. The creators of those U(s) are the "thinkers". They make a dense representation of the U and act upon the real U "intelligently" according to their will. For example our knowledge is that dense representation. Our will is actually the next move that was given to us. But it was given by the same U. We cannot be intelligent and be part of the U. ...

If you have noticed, recently a lot of web sites have acquired Facebook's like button . At first I didn't see the broad implications of this tiny button if it wasn't for a f8 LIVE video I watched last week. At this year's f8 LIVE , Mark Zuckerberg and Bret Taylor introduced the Open Graph protocol . For the total nubs, graphs are (according to Wikipedia's article on Graph theory ) mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects from a certain collection. Now, I have read about graphs here and there. They're visible in the following fields: My dictionaries' future projects all ended up in graph-like structures. My recent reading of articles on AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) have also been related to graphs. If our gray matter is the synthesizing algorithm (see my article on the brain , in bulgarian) then it's cooperation with white matter (being a network layer) forms a good candidate for saying that our intelligence and ...