I wrote a book this year. It's a fairly big book on artificial intelligence. All along, and even after it was published, people told me no one will read such a big book. I agree with them. I usually choose watching a 15 minute video over an hour video on the same subject. Better yet, … Continue reading Music Bodhi Day – Four-Year Update
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End of the Maintained Trail
Don't worry. As you can see, the trail does continue on. When I met the Eternal Fishnu in 2017, he explained to me that he is the ith manifestation of Vishnu, the "Buddha of the Devonian", overseeing the transformation of fish to land vertebrates that eventually lead to us. I asked why he is here. … Continue reading End of the Maintained Trail
The Process of Intelligence
As we stand in an era defined by AI, the philosophical implications of AI tools from past eras become increasingly profound. For example, the old language, Prolog—the star of the 1980s/1990s era of Expert System. Today's AI, particularly large language models (LLMs such as ChatGPT), come as close as we've ever seen to something human … Continue reading The Process of Intelligence
The Yin and Yang of A.I.
Black implies white, life implies death, self implies other, fear implies courage, action implies time, and Yin implies Yang. In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLMs) imply knowledge graphs (KG). (Paraphrasing Alan Watts.) This current "AI summer" is dominated by LLMs such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and LLama. But the dominant … Continue reading The Yin and Yang of A.I.
Cycles
There is a wise and well-known story often told in Zen circles informally titled, "Bad Luck? Good Luck?" It sort of goes like this: A farmer had a horse that ran away. His neighbors said, "Such bad luck!" The farmer replied, "Maybe." The next day, the horse returned with three wild horses. The neighbors exclaimed, … Continue reading Cycles
Five Aggregates of Machine Learning
In one of the foundational concepts of Buddhist philosophy, the Five Aggregates, we unsurprisingly (at least to me) find counterparts in the world of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Genuine AI is currently beyond the large language models (LLM - ex. ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini) that have become very familiar to us over the … Continue reading Five Aggregates of Machine Learning
Happy Lunar Bodhi Day – Jan 18, 2024!
Happy Lunar Bodhi Day!!! We had quite a snow storm a few days ago. Well, well. It's been quite a year. After my Bodhi Day service, I had a "bodhi moment" found in my daily Zen reminders I set up for myself. Almost 20 years ago, I found a site listing some good judo sayings. … Continue reading Happy Lunar Bodhi Day – Jan 18, 2024!
Rev. Hanamoku’s Christmas 2023 Message
We are problem solvers. We're thinkers. That's the schtick of our species. We don't need to depend solely on eons of evolution to patch the holes in our life strategies. We must train our brains to think as well as train our brains to perform valuable tasks. However, society places a premium on focusing on … Continue reading Rev. Hanamoku’s Christmas 2023 Message
A Year Since ChatGPT 3.5 Changed the World
A leaf that painted a tree. Mrs. Hanamoku found this leaf this Fall. Nature is a generative AI too. Happy Anniversary to the introduction of AI to the forefront of the general public's awareness a year ago today. That is the release of ChatGPT 3.5 by OpenAI last November 30, 2022. I thought I'd write … Continue reading A Year Since ChatGPT 3.5 Changed the World
Certainty
"Four plus three equals three plus four" is what the interviewer kept repeating as her guest spoke of seemingly hocus-pocus ideas about consciousness. She was struggling with his concepts that didn't align with what she's used to. She insisted to herself that there are things we are absolutely certain about - mostly math and science. … Continue reading Certainty
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