Jakub Smékal – index

Non-academic content and explorations, mostly to clarify my own thoughts.

Bounded computation and the nature of intelligence

musings

AI

I had a conversation recently that seemed to have cleared a lot of things up for me. I will try to go through that conversation here to see whether I can recover the…

An improvisation on self-improving AI

musings

AI

Consider a simple idea. The intellectual capabilities of humanity increase with each generation¹. One way to explain the rise of intelligence is by looking at the intelligence we store in our environment. We store knowledge in books, computers, art, in the things we…

A brief exploration into mechanistic interpretability

mechanistic interpretability

I recently began exploring the field of mechanistic interpretability. It’s fascinating in a very similar way as the field of active inference ~1-2 years ago (let’s hope it…

Carving up problems at their joints

musings

Imagine looking at flower. Depending on the lighting conditions and some other factors, you see the flower with different levels of detail. If you take a picture and project…

Regression as holism

musings

Upon reading the Ant Fugue chapter in Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter, I am left with a number of impressions that I’ll try to convey here. I was particularly intrigued by the analysis of ant colonies as agents and…

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  author = {Jakub Smékal},
  url = {https://jakubsmekal.com/writings},
  langid = {en}
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