Fractal thinking | Keith McGreggor | TEDxPeachtree

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Keith takes his maxim: "Be an explorer of the world" to heart as he provides a persuasive and illuminating approach to developing artificial agents in this informative and thought-provoking talk.
Keith McGreggor is an innovation champion. He founded the first artificial intelligence company in the Southeast, is a former director of software engineering at Yahoo and wrote the first 3D program for Apple.
He is the director of VentureLab at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which facilitates the commercialization of the university's technology intellectual property.
His research and presentations on fractal thinking within the AI community globally, has triggered and continues to spur discourse in the current approach to developing artificial agents.
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[@keithmcgreggor3550]

Thanks for all these thoughtful comments ... I’ve made quite a bit of progress since filming this. (And I do agree: 1.25x! )

[@sahilpocker]

You're missing a key element; Which is a crucial bottleneck for relating real world data into the AI.

[@sahilpocker]

The talk is on point!

[@partigianoliberal]

It's a shame Mandelbrot didn't get to see your work.c

[@matttenderholt4744]

You’re awesome for taking it as a positive interpretation! Love the information and work and the video was wonderful! Send you and everyone else here, all the best of blessings to come! Peace and love 💕

[@TrueWalker88]

It's a great talk but I still struggle to see how AI is a good thing.

[@NewZealandWild]

As a nature photographer, it is all about spotting the unusual, and I so often seem guided by instinct too. I'll walk off the track randomly, on a whim, you might say, and so often, walk straight to a spot where I'll invariably find some beautifully coloured fungi, or something else photo worthy. It never ceases to amaze me how well that works for me. Our desires, fears and belief system also has a lot to do with what we see. A person with a strong ego and a rigid belief system and will often draw conclusions faster, and be more 'certain' about what they are seeing. They may also try and insist others see the same. It's been interesting watching the live feed of the new volcano on La Palma and reading the comments. Sometimes, it's as though everyone is looking at a different screen, and everyone wants to see different outcomes The bored and nihilistic want to see a cataclysmic explosion, and disaster, whereas, the deeper thinkers, and those who are happy in themselves, are more concerned for the residents of the island, and hope for a better outcome for them. It appears to me, that both intelligence, and emotional bias, have a great deal to do with how we interpret what we see.

[@nicolashenri8886]

1.25x speed is perfect for this one

[@kapilgoyal9518]

2x

[@andycopeland7051]

Thanks that was a great suggestion

[@dunichtich100]

I just understood, that even language is fractal. We use repeating "audiophonic" Paterns wich are aranged in a special kind of order. So everybody can build a simmilar picture of what the other person is trying to express. The art here is that everybody should get the same basic message the rest is interpretation and giving it a meaning for yourself... 😱

[@S.G.Wallner]

be careful throwing around the word fractal as a descriptor. Do the "audiophonic" patterns contain self-similarity, scale invariance, and recursivity? Those are the properties fundamental to fractals.

[@chrismarklowitz1001]

Very perceptive indeed. The way the brain remembers is by relating information back to what it has already learned. In addition to interpreting information by a mental set or a set of expectations. Created by what it has already learned.

[@ashokgoel58]

Awesome talk! Thoughtful as well thought provoking.

[@islandmonusvi]

Fast forward to 11:25

[@wbworkout]

Brilliant lecture, I so resonated with the content. I see like that.

[@Snowflake_tv]

Amazing. I've also thought about fractal thinking, which includes zooming in and out freely, with oneself's focus point. I am really glad to meet you who think similar with me! I've thought that it probably is concerned with AI, which is the dream of Alan Turing.

[@system4114]

When you take hallucinogens every sense of your body can give you a fractal sensation.

[@omniscient159]

S y s t e m 4 1 this happens literaally Alll the time in the subcoscious рUre blYss

[@evans6229]

Totally. I feel fractals I dont just see them.

[@mmengonganglaprof9615]

In other cultures, they know that your first memory is already in your mind. It doesn’t necessarily stem from what you see first. If your parents’ past trauma are inscribed in your genes, then they might be expressed in your thoughts (or dreams). Western culture wants to think like a machine, whereas what we should be doing is understand everything we humans know.

[@bdsrecors2010]

me sorprende lo mucho que mis experiencias con psicodélicos me ayudan para entender todas estas cosas ..y incluso imaginar con mas...

[@jedje]

interesting talk, thanks!

[@quantumofspace1367]

1. The dark energy of the Universe is hidden in quantum membranes - shells located in a spherical quantum "rose bud", each at its own level of energy. 2. Quantum gravity - works like yes, the energy center in the quantum "rose bud" drifts relative to the beginning of the energy level, the quantum of membranes. 3. Einstein’s smooth space in a quantum universe, collected by fractals from a quantum “rosebuds” connected by quantum strings. 4. Quantum "rosebuds" are connected by flat quantum membranes forming quantum strings.

[@Snowflake_tv]

How could happen that the view number about this amazing video is such few? I cannot get it.

[@DELPHIIII]

Because he himself does not seem to have a very good grasp of his own subject, he provides very few examples, and the ones he does provide are very simple and well known. He also speaks way too slow as if he's revealing something profound. The presentation is just a bit off. Could've been a 3 minute bit.

[@trinsitionstrategies7479]

@@DELPHIIII i see so you’re saying that him asserting that we don’t actually live in a newtonian and particle filled universe, but an infinite fractal plane isn’t profound. I don’t know if I’m the odd one out, but I found the implications of this video transformative, to say the least.

[@symbolsandsystems]

Intelegence is to witness that these are the same and those are not the same. Intelegence is a muscle, which like all muscles performs only one of two possibilities: contracts/not-contracts.

[@shanesmith734]

I thought this was a new and interesting idea of my own for a long time. I really thought i was onto something original until i found this video, lol.

[@lezleythurman1365]

11:38 the fractal image on the right is spinning in opposite directions which stuns the mind.

[@theunbeliever7394]

Yes we all know apperception exists. This talk can be summed up in a single statement “Apperceptual priming exists.”

[@paulburn727]

Intelligence has this fractal aspect, but our human thinking is much more complex and kinda mysterious (viz. philosophy, art, etc.). So they will create only limited artificial problem solver. But it could be useful.

[@solverdonk7596]

The computer created the possibility of discovering fractals because of human limitation. So humans and ai are both limited at this point. It's more interesting to know what to teach them as at this point we need to teach ourselves to work as 1 species...

[@chrismarklowitz1001]

Also you need a code that understands itself. We all have this self image

[@patrickjones8644]

you sir are brilliant man have written some books

[@miklevideo]

Cómo vemos afecta como pensamos y viceversa

[@phy29]

that fractal poetry ....

[@ChesterC3]

Fractal thoughts, maybe dmt really gives "access" to this views

[@solverdonk7596]

It's interesting how psychodlycs show this fractal patterns, I guess there is more teaching there waiting 🙏

[@AlmostEthical]

Very perceptive, but what about hearing, touch, smell and taste?

[@chrismarklowitz1001]

AlmostEthical right

[@DagUTube]

Fractals are not defined by self-similarity. The romanesco cabbage cannot be defined by a mathematical function: just approximated up to some scale and level of detail. It doesn't look as it was generated by a comptuer - or just to some geeks. I'm not trying to be pedantic: it is crucial to understand that fractal dimension characterises textures that are not at all repeating, and not at all replica of smaller parts and self similarity. It's important because this is where freedom and creative thinking hides!!! So, I fear that if AI is based on this type of approach to fractality, it will never be intelligent

[@phy29]

what i want to mean is fractale are not limited to difference of size but can be in nature ....

[@saralinnea1]

As a psychologist I am missing the part of understanding the human mind as far greater than just pattern recognition.

[@phy29]

means if the bases is infinite an number with an finite numbers of letter can give an infinity different senses ....

[@lilysunshine3447]

Looking for overlapping patterns?

[@espositogregory]

Metaphor is the purposeful error held in tandem with truth’s obverse consequence. The mind “mistakes” faces where preset indicators for “might be face” arise perceptually before providing the toggle power consciously to force awareness. Evolutionarily this help us survive. But as we learned to make metaphor of the various important aspects of the world around us, We eventually began to produce individuals who made a metaphor of themselves. These people begin to interact with others in a different way, and as they had kids and awoke the metaphor through overt symbols and interactions in others, create a culture. We have to make abstractions about reality , Because the reality is we are abstraction made manifest mentally. Think of a moment where knowledge or understanding created a sensation of the entire world or your inner space drastically growing or enriching seemingly all at once. The only thing that one can truly express them selves, because they are not. Why is the reason for everything. And

[@tylermacdonald8924]

Lmao, how hard were you tripping when you wrote this?

[@omniscient159]

And....and??

[@ChesterC3]

Soo, humans are just madelbrot set in a scale?

[@JonathanKowalski]

COOL.

[@williamleasure6221]

Until my brain trouble I had a photographic memory I remembered everything. Not great with memories of an a alcoholic abusive dad 🙌

[@huthiyfh]

why is it the dark blue?? 15:27

[@ChioCharmwily]

I'm probably WAY off, but I can only futilely guess that the scheme is: a unique shape, in a set of three, accompanies a colored square. I.O.W. There is one Green Square, one Pink Square, and one Blue Square. For every Green Square, there are three GREEN "T-Block" shapes - so, for every Pink Square, there should be three PINK "Line" shapes. Why? Because...if Green and Pink Square have unique shapes accompanying them, that'd mean Blue Square has to have its OWN shape group, too (we just can't see it, if so.) Blue Square stole Pink Square's third pink "Line" by coloring it BLUE. There can only be PINK "Line" shapes. "Line" shapes belong to Pink Sqaure! (I might be super wrong on all of this, ha-ha!)

[@godsouljour]

Here's the rub... We are in a simulation, which makes us... You guessed it, artificial intelligence.

[@austinroth9730]

Infinium is what made everything we are but fractals of fractals of this matrix run by infinium

[@Daniel-ef7nk]

Yes it is a simulation but we are not necessarily AI It may be that we have a soul commanding the body, just like someones commands a character in a video game

[@phy29]

you see you can use the same amount of letter to make too senses seems so different....

[@mills8102]

I certainly hope they don't see the world as we do, or at least have a robust protocol of frame breaking and reality testing to offset some of the more pernicious follies of human cognition.

[@MusicLovingFool1]

Seeing and thinking...hmmm...what does a blind man see?

[@haleydoe2279]

This is why people don't like me. I totally get it now.

[@phy29]

more serious think of infenidesimale fonction with an other definition of point as limite ....

[@hellflipe]

I Wonder If he thinks that we live inside a simulation

[@omniscient159]

yup yup yup & Go Vegan. Peace

[@erikbudrow1255]

Welp... cue hostile AI takeover.

[@erikbudrow1255]

I hope AI will become smarter than the FB censorship AI lol.

[@RonaldTindle-dt7fs]

FTM