Jonathan Mugan·4d agoLearning Abstractions: The Next Frontier for AII had lived for almost 30 years without ever seeing crown moldings until the day my special lady pointed them out. The ceiling adornments…
Jonathan Mugan·Jun 29, 2025LLMs Enable Judgment: From Code Toward ConsciousnessTraditional computer programs rely on logic that is cut and dried; they therefore can only process a subset of our fluid world. But with…
Jonathan Mugan·Aug 24, 2024The top 30 books to expand the capabilities of AI: a biased reading listLarge language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT are surprisingly good, but they can’t expand human knowledge because they only interpolate…A response icon1A response icon1
Jonathan Mugan·Sep 15, 2022RLlib for Deep Hierarchical Multiagent Reinforcement LearningReinforcement learning (RL) is an effective method for solving problems that require agents to learn the best way to act in complex…A response icon3A response icon3
Jonathan Mugan·Apr 1, 2022Introducing ThoughtLog: The Free Automatic DiaryOur thoughts are our experience in this world, and our worries, memories, and plans are the only real testimony to our existence. Moment by…
Jonathan Mugan·Sep 22, 2020Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is an inflection point for virtual worlds and our ownMicrosoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2020 doesn’t just feel real; it almost is real. You see the same objects and relationships when you look…
Jonathan Mugan·Jul 22, 2018Generating Natural-Language Text with Neural NetworksComputers are illiterate. Reading requires mapping the words on a page to shared concepts in our culture and commonsense understanding, and…
InTDS ArchivebyJonathan Mugan·Dec 30, 2017Why is there life? And what does it have to do with AI?I love when my old questions get answered. Twenty years ago, I lay awake wondering why life exists. Now, after reading books like…A response icon11A response icon11
InIntuition MachinebyJonathan Mugan·Jul 19, 2017Chatbots: Theory and PracticeThere’s a lot of fluff surrounding chatbots, so I wrote this post to lay out the basics. I first review the theory of conversation to give…A response icon4A response icon4
InChatbots MagazinebyJonathan Mugan·May 2, 2017You and Your Bot: A New Kind of Lifelong RelationshipIn my last blog post, I discussed how computers could understand natural language by simulating our world. Such an understanding would…A response icon3A response icon3
