In this post I argue for a radically different approach to let machines learn to fully understand a natural language, as I believe the current exploitation of pure text-based methods is reaching a ceiling and will not yield full language comprehension. Instead, I propose to use gamification of language in an interactive multi-sensory virtual game. 2024 update: in the era of large language models, I still believe in what I wrote in this post early 2020. In short, human languag

In part 1, I wrote about the various concerns we as society should have about the non-transparent use of big personal data. The main issue at hand is the invisible but increasingly invasive type of manipulation through personal profiling based on a constant monitoring of our online behaviour. How do we make sure that we as individuals are not becoming slaves of marketing and stay critical about what we perceive in a concrete world? One thing is certain. In a world where many

I recently saw "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" - a documentary named after American author and scholar Shoshana Zuboff's book released in October last year. Its title is a provocative description for our era's paradox. Where data is the new gold, on the backs of people naively giving away rights to be monitored by commercial parties. I can say the documentary discussed things I did not even know about. For instance, Pokémon Go actually being a Google founded "start-up" (

In the realm of what artificial intelligence (AI) can (not) do compared to humans, I want to share some thoughts in this post on something that has fascinated me lately: the experience of beauty. Have you ever visited a museum and encountered a piece of art that was so beautiful that it elicited an emotional response from you without you being able to control it? Or maybe have you ever seen someone so pretty, you simply stared at them for a moment in admiration? Let's assume