Marcel Fröhlich

@froehlichmarcel.bsky.social

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Data Strategy, Building organizations building systems, Mathematics Director Services @ eccenca Chair OMG Enterprise Knowledge Graph Platform Task Force https://sigmoid.social/@FroehlichMarcel

We have some very cool capabilities in our product now, combining knowledge graphs and LLMs via our rich set of platform APIs, LlamaIndex and MCP - it feels absolutely magic. Properly designed knowledge graphs are a real game changer for generative AI. #eccencaCorporateMemory
Cover photo from the book The Body In The Mind from Mark Johnson
In living organisms, homeostasis is the natural regulation of internal states aimed at maintaining conditions compatible with life. Typical artificial systems are not equipped with comparable regulatory features. Here, we introduce an artificial neural network that incorporates homeostatic features. Its own computing substrate is placed in a needful and vulnerable relation to the very objects over which it computes. For example, artificial neurons performing classification of MNIST digits or Fashion-MNIST articles of clothing may receive excitatory or inhibitory effects, which alter their own learning rate as a direct result of perceiving and classifying the digits. In this scenario, accurate recognition is desirable to the agent itself because it guides decisions to regulate its vulnerable internal states and functionality. Counterintuitively, the addition of vulnerability to a learner does not necessarily impair its performance. On the contrary, self-regulation in response to vulnerability confers benefits under certain conditions. We show that homeostatic design confers increased adaptability under concept shift, in which the relationships between labels and data change over time, and that the greatest advantages are obtained under the highest rates of shift. This necessitates the rapid un-learning of past associations and the re-learning of new ones. We also demonstrate the superior abilities of homeostatic learners in environments with dynamically changing rates of concept shift. Our homeostatic design exposes the artificial neural network's thinking machinery to the consequences of its own "thoughts", illustrating the advantage of putting one's own "skin in the game" to improve fluid intelligence.
Graffiti in red letters: THINGS I HATE 1. VANDALISM 2. IRONY 3. LISTS
As there was no official title for Pablo Picasso’s painting dated October 21, 1967, Jill Magid has assigned one: “Portrait of Jill Magid”. With this title, the painting becomes a portrait of her and a self-portrait of hers, co-authored with Picasso. “Portrait of Jill Magid” should henceforth be applied to the real painting and all its future copies. By exploiting the peer-to-peer network - the domain par excellence of piracy and bootleg copies – Magid aims to share “Portrait of Jill Magid” as the painting’s title until it is so omnipresent to become its official one.