Michael Hochberg
@mkhochb.bsky.social
University of Montpellier - Santa Fe Institute. Working these days on intelligence in biological and artificial systems. Website https://mehochberg.wixsite.com/blog/academia
Looking forward to this binge
October 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Looking forward to this binge
We need more of this
October 8, 2025 at 3:02 AM
We need more of this
What future does AI hold? With @paulbrainey.bsky.social, we hypothesize that human-AI coevolution is leading to the emergence of a new evolutionary unit of selection. Science fiction or looming fact? Read our paper and judge for yourself. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
September 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
What future does AI hold? With @paulbrainey.bsky.social, we hypothesize that human-AI coevolution is leading to the emergence of a new evolutionary unit of selection. Science fiction or looming fact? Read our paper and judge for yourself. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
What makes intelligence unique? Not surprisingly, no single, simple answer! Progress is however possible on the question if we view intelligence in an information framework. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
What makes intelligence unique? Not surprisingly, no single, simple answer! Progress is however possible on the question if we view intelligence in an information framework. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
19/ I have made a preliminary attempt at listing some abilities and the types of systems in which they can be found. There is clearly a LOT to be discussed here, but I believe this is in the right direction.
August 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
19/ I have made a preliminary attempt at listing some abilities and the types of systems in which they can be found. There is clearly a LOT to be discussed here, but I believe this is in the right direction.
9/ I develop an information framework of intelligence (IFI). IFI comprises the agent, agent abilities, hierarchy in information access and management, the environment, proxies (technology, social interactions), agent history (knowledge and skills), and longer term evolution.
August 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
9/ I develop an information framework of intelligence (IFI). IFI comprises the agent, agent abilities, hierarchy in information access and management, the environment, proxies (technology, social interactions), agent history (knowledge and skills), and longer term evolution.
6/ We need an eco-evolutionary perspective on intelligence. Central to this is the “intelligence niche”, that is potentially achievable goals if the environment and context are right, and actually doable goals given the reality of environment and context.
August 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
6/ We need an eco-evolutionary perspective on intelligence. Central to this is the “intelligence niche”, that is potentially achievable goals if the environment and context are right, and actually doable goals given the reality of environment and context.
Latest version of my attempt to synthesize concepts in intelligence including biological, human and AI, and propose a framework, which with more research, could lead to a predictive theory. www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
April 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Latest version of my attempt to synthesize concepts in intelligence including biological, human and AI, and propose a framework, which with more research, could lead to a predictive theory. www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
Just finished reading "The Coevolution - The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines" by Edward Ashford Lee. Pleasantly surprised. Deep dives into machines, humans, their interactions and emergent coevolution. Some views I disagree with, but that's what makes a good book.
March 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Just finished reading "The Coevolution - The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines" by Edward Ashford Lee. Pleasantly surprised. Deep dives into machines, humans, their interactions and emergent coevolution. Some views I disagree with, but that's what makes a good book.
About to embark on Vol 2 of The Hundred Years War by Jonathan Sumption. Couldn't have imagined such a dense history. Just ordered Vol 5, bringing to total page count of the series to just shy of, or a bit beyond, 4000. Too lazy to look.
February 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM
About to embark on Vol 2 of The Hundred Years War by Jonathan Sumption. Couldn't have imagined such a dense history. Just ordered Vol 5, bringing to total page count of the series to just shy of, or a bit beyond, 4000. Too lazy to look.
This made my Friday
January 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This made my Friday
Just arrived. Looking forward to this one.
January 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Just arrived. Looking forward to this one.
Map of local tower network
January 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Map of local tower network
Beautiful 'optical telegraph' tower near Saint-Bauzille-de-la-Sylve, France (1834). These were once used for long-distance communication, and replaced by Morse code lines in the mid 1800s. French web site: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9...
January 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Beautiful 'optical telegraph' tower near Saint-Bauzille-de-la-Sylve, France (1834). These were once used for long-distance communication, and replaced by Morse code lines in the mid 1800s. French web site: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9...
Suiting-up for the deep-dive
January 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Suiting-up for the deep-dive
Just received. Hope these are two winners.
January 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Just received. Hope these are two winners.
Looking forward to these reads
January 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Looking forward to these reads
Reading again "Possible minds: 25 ways of looking at AI" (2019). Can see just how much AI has moved in the past several years, but understanding it has not.
January 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Reading again "Possible minds: 25 ways of looking at AI" (2019). Can see just how much AI has moved in the past several years, but understanding it has not.
Looking forward to this!
December 17, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Looking forward to this!
A theory of intelligences www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...
November 29, 2024 at 7:01 AM
A theory of intelligences www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...