John BallinPat Inc2023: The Year of Understanding TheoryCybernetics was a name before AI was coined, and it is probably a better label for that science. John McCarthy created Artificial…·16 min read·Jan 5, 2023--3--3
John BallinPat IncThe 2023 Breakthrough Challenge for NLUSolve these 3 simple theoretical tests to demonstrate human-like NLU. It’s possible with the science of linguistics — as explained by Role…·7 min read·Dec 17, 2022--1--1
John BallinPat Inc2022 NLU: Year in ReviewWas 2022 the year AGI became evident, with Google’s LaMDA being a sentient machine — or was it a year of increasing hype and desperation…·10 min read·Dec 15, 2022--3--3
John BallinPat Inc5 years after beating Facebook’s bAbIPAT achieved 100%, and found errors in machine learning training data, on Facebook’s intelligent dialog tests 5 years ago. A fundamental…·5 min read·Nov 17, 2022--1--1
John BallinPat IncArtificial General Intelligence (AGI)AGI will come from brain emulation like Patom Theory (PT), a theoretical brain model, since human intelligence is a feature of our brain.·13 min read·Nov 4, 2022--4--4
John BallinPat IncNLU and ConsciousnessNatural Language Understanding (NLU) doesn’t rely on consciousness, nor do most other brain functions. That was my premise in 1999 as I…·10 min read·Oct 28, 2022--5--5
John BallinPat IncFixing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with NLUWhy doesn’t speech recognition operate at human-levels?·10 min read·Oct 22, 2022--2--2
John BallinPat IncGoal-oriented AI for AirlinesFacebook said: “… goal-oriented dialog is … too hard, the stakes are too high … the wrong plane, the wrong flight, that’s a very big…·4 min read·Oct 10, 2022----
John BallinPat IncGood, Bad & Ugly: Innovation in Round-the-worldThe new oneworld system is amazing, using our design features as discussed earlier here to improve their round-the-world ticketing. The…·7 min read·Oct 2, 2022--1--1
John BallinPat IncAirlines adds “Next Generation” Conversational AIThe oneworld round-the-world (RTW) system we designed in 2020 is now online in Beta! This ushers in the Next Generation Conversational AI…·8 min read·Sep 30, 2022----