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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

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Marcel Fröhlich

@froehlichmarcel.bsky.social

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

May 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM

Marcel Fröhlich

@froehlichmarcel.bsky.social

A few years later in '87 Johnson published 'The Body in the Mind' which again should be very much aligned to your perspective, written with a philosophical framing.

Cover photo from the book The Body In The Mind from Mark Johnson

December 16, 2024 at 11:18 AM

Marcel Fröhlich

@froehlichmarcel.bsky.social

Need is All You Need: Homeostatic Neural Networks Adapt to Concept Shift

by Kingson Man (@kingson.bsky.social), Antonio Damasio, Hartmut Neven

algorithmically operationalising 'skin in the game'

arxiv.org/abs/2205.08645

#AI

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.

November 20, 2024 at 9:36 PM

Marcel Fröhlich

@froehlichmarcel.bsky.social

September 24, 2024 at 8:18 PM

Marcel Fröhlich

@froehlichmarcel.bsky.social

Bard constructed a complex analogy for the society of cells and mapped concepts from #GeneRegulation to social institutions:

Curious if experts find those characterisations good matches or not.

November 21, 2023 at 6:31 AM

Marcel Fröhlich

@froehlichmarcel.bsky.social

Funny games with LLMs:
Asked to compare/relate Hofstede‘s dimensions for fingerprinting of cultural traits with the currencies of key social systems.

November 17, 2023 at 8:13 PM

Marcel Fröhlich

@froehlichmarcel.bsky.social

We agree on the fighting, not so much on the using (X) instead of putting effort in alternatives (not just the next one, but substantially different ones).
As Dewey noted 100 years ago in ‚Human nature and conduct‘: „There must be change in objective arrangements and institutions“.