{"id":26168,"date":"2018-11-17T21:49:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T02:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=26168"},"modified":"2018-11-17T21:49:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T02:49:36","slug":"the-genius-neuroscientist-who-might-hold-the-key-to-true-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/11\/17\/the-genius-neuroscientist-who-might-hold-the-key-to-true-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wired <\/em>magazine has the article with click bait headline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFriston\u2019s free energy principle says that all life, at every scale of organization\u2014from single cells to the human brain, with its billions of neurons\u2014is driven by the same universal imperative, which can be reduced to a mathematical function. To be alive, he says, is to act in ways that reduce the gulf between your expectations and your sensory inputs. Or, in Fristonian terms, it is to minimize free energy.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I found the article rather fascinating to read.  I had feelings of getting close to understanding something important, with the realization that I had a lot of research to do to understanding what was new in AI which was a subject I only barely understood in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired magazine has the article with click bait headline The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI. Friston\u2019s free energy principle says that all life, at every scale of organization\u2014from single cells to the human brain, with its billions of neurons\u2014is driven by the same universal imperative, which can be reduced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26169,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26168\/revisions\/26169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}