So nice of Emily Hagen (Artificial Intelligence Engineer) of IBM to post about us
BrainChip, VVDN Technologies together develop Edge Box based on neuromorphic technology BrainChip, a company known for its neuromorphic computing devices…
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And the founder of Skywise ai says in the comments............
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Still concerned about your investment?
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Hold your horses liking these two posts, everyone!
While many of us are probably still wondering what exactly Rob Telson was alluding to when he recently posted a picture of a smiling Todd Vierra with the caption “Sometimes you have to stop and appreciate the moment.”, I’d like to take up this phrase and change it to “Sometimes you have to stop and take a closer look at the comments”. Or rather at the posters behind those comments.
Firstly, Emily Hagen. I am not so sure this is indeed an authentic account of a real IBM employee, let alone of anyone in an influential position at IBM…
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Emily Hagen ai engineer IBM, thanks for the plug! Perhaps she wants to market us into the Nigerian region
BrainChip, VVDN Technologies together develop Edge Box based on neuromorphic technology BrainChip, a company known for its neuromorphic computing devices…
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On Google, I couldn’t find any confirmation of this “Emily Hagen” being a real IBM employee except several links to that said LinkedIn account (not being a LinkedIn member myself, though, I can’t access her actual profile page), which is kind of weird considering she describes herself as an “artificial intelligence engineer” and a “technology leader”. You’d expect some search results beyond her own LinkedIn account, wouldn’t you? Plus, take that strange AI-generated fantasy avatar instead of a regular professional-looking profile pic. Yeah, I am aware she says she is an AI engineer, so that could be an explanation for the avatar, but it all looks a bit sus to me. Also note that all she did was repost an article by Abishek Jadhav, dated Sept 29, which is almost verbatim Brainchip’s official press release AFAICT. No words of her own. Is Emily Hagen in reality possibly just a bot? I am more than happy to be proven wrong.
And now on to Chris McGinty’s post commenting on Emily Hagen’s post (which he seems to think she is the original author of, which in fact she isn’t).
While the enthusiastic endorsement of Brainchip’s technology by “the founder of Skywise AI” may sound like an awesome acknowledgment at first glance, some light digging or rather superficial scratching of the surface convinced me at practically lightning speed I’d personally much prefer validation from other (less “fantastic”
) representatives of the “AI community” that do not claim to have “a prophetic roadmap for researchers to follow towards achieving faster-than-light-technology by 2072”.
Admittedly, I am not a physicist myself and hence not in the least qualified to comment on the science behind his “novel approach to solving quantum mechanical problems by combining traditional Quantum Field Theory with Fractal Geometry” (
www.skywise.ai), but let’s put it this way: to me personally it seems highly unlikely if not to say a ludicrous claim that someone with a B.A. in Fine Arts and “no science background whatsoever” (those are his own words within the first minute of a three week-old YouTube video linked below, part of a webinar, which happened to be his first ever presentation to the world of “academia” (intriguingly, the organiser, Global Scientific Guild, comes up in a Google search as a possible example of a so-called predatory conference), would - over the course of a decade and keep in mind all in stealth mode! - evolve into a genius at least on par with Albert Einstein (he seems to imply he is even smarter than him, but I will give him the benefit of doubt and interpret the progress he stated to have made in recombining his theories with that of general relativity as standing on the shoulder of giants instead) and revolutionise physics by coming up with a Nobel Prize-worthy mathematical equation all by himself. No peer-reviewed papers anywhere to be googled, which is a no-go in the scientific community. Looks like his “independently-published” book on Amazon (purportedly the “newly updated paperback edition of Book 1 in the Plenum of Energy Prophecy Series”) is not exactly a hot-seller either. 0 Reviews. Plus a total of 0 likes for that recent YouTube presentation of his.
For those so inclined (to borrow Esq.111’s trademark phrase), check out the following links and tell me a good reason why I should consider this more than mere esoteric Al gibberish (not that I’d understand much more reading an authentic physics dissertation
):
A potential mathematical expression for the synthesis of all the discoveries needed to achieve faster-than-light technology could involve finding a way to create and manipulate a negative mass with a specific configuration of space-time curvature and energy density that satisfies certain inequalitie
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Minneapolis, Minnesota--(Newsfile Corp. - February 24, 2023) - Chris McGinty, who has a keen...
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Look, maybe (even though I highly doubt so) I am doing this guy injustice (and he may even be a shareholder here on TSE reading this), but I personally was definitely imagining “the founder of Skywise AI” as someone firmly rooted in the scientific community.
Don’t get me wrong - an academic degree is by no means a prerequisite for success in life, but seeing Chris McGinty being announced as “Dr. McGinty” both in the recent and an upcoming webinar by Global Scientific Guild (he truthfully states in that video’s introduction that he is neither a doctor nor a professor, but has evidently either not asked the organisers to correct this misrepresentation for the upcoming webinar OR they in turn conveniently leave it as it is as it will attract more people interested in presenting and/or viewing, which IMO either way clearly constitutes a misuse of titles) or getting mislabeled as an “astrophysicist” who “reveals his new unifying theory of fractal energy … could make faster-than-light-travel possible” (the theory of the hobby physicist he is and that he admits to have created with the help of Chat GPT!
) is a slap in the face for researchers all over the world who after having studied for years at recognised institutions had to prove their knowledge in recognised exams and are complying with standardised scientific principles when doing research, publishing papers/dissertations, presenting at conferences etc.
This is not to say that amateur scientists cannot acquire a wealth of knowledge on their own or cannot make great discoveries (like for example spotting a previously unknown comet), but going to market with a dubious equation (“The McGinty Equation (MEQ) is a US patent-protected process that offers an innovative approach to revolutionizing hydrogen fuel applications by developing advanced semiconductor technologies for efficient hydrogen splitting.“) is a different kettle of fish. I assume by hydrogen splitting he actually means splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen? And why is it suddenly a process that’s patented, not the equation as such as mentioned elsewhere? And in a different LinkedIn post, The Unified Equation of Physics (MEQ) all of a sudden “presents a patented framework designed to address the critical challenge of error mitigation in quantum computation.”
What happened to all the hydrogen all of a sudden? Oh and where is that patent listed anyway? I am afraid I couldn’t find it, but maybe I didn’t look in the right place or it has to do with the many months of time span between the patent getting filed and published?
I do, however, agree with Chris McGinty on one thing, and that is the bright future he is envisioning for Brainchip. I am just not sure whether he - the self-declared visionary entrepreneur and inventor - may simply be trying to jump on the AI bandwagon getting his name and his “Unified Equation of Physics” (aka MEQ aka McGinty Equation) known to the world of Edge AI. Self-promotion in the hope of getting on important people’s radars and securing sales of IP licenses? (“The MEQ is a patented process, and any MEQ-inspired innovations require a license to protect intellectual property rights...”)
IMHO it reeks of megalomania, especially for someone with “no science background whatsoever” (his own words), to name an allegedly revolutionary mathematical formula after himself. Shouldn’t that rather be done by your peers instead, provided your research gets validated and proves to be groundbreaking indeed? Well, I suppose if you consider (or pretend to consider) yourself an unrecognised genius, that’s the only way it may ever happen. The internet is your friend. Anyone can pretend to be an expert these days. And Chat GPT has made all this so much easier.
Interestingly, the self-professed brainiac seems to have been extremely quick (although not faster than light - still lots of work to do here for him) to patent MEQ, his purportedly groundbreaking mathematical formula - had he really discovered a new fundamental law of nature, it would have been unpatentable anyway, just like Einstein’s Equation.
An astute businessman. That’s what I’d say he is. Trying to cash in on the AI boom. A genuine fan of Brainchip’s technology? Possibly. A genius? Decide for yourselves.
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