Hi, I'm Andy J. Wills, Ph.D. (he/him) and a Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology , University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. I have researched cognitive processes in biological intelligences (mostly humans), and taught psychology to undergraduates, for 30 years.

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AI vs. human

Basic object classification still hard for AI

Posted on July 5, 2021

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In recent years, there have been quite a few claims that state-of-the-art AI has reached human levels of performance in object recognition. In a recent talk, I briefly discuss some of the evidence against that view, including some preliminary unpublished work from my lab. You can now view that talk... [Read More]
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Take back control

Posted on June 25, 2021

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Having recently acquired a ‘regular’ Android phone, after several years either without a smart phone or with a de-Googled one (that’s a whole other story…) I got a slice of the default behaviour of these devices. Push notifications - constantly. I had a BlackBerry a decade ago - the device... [Read More]
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Myrakaru - Tammetoru

Drift into the horizon with precision melodies...

Posted on June 19, 2021

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Today, I’m listening to Myrakaru’s excellent Tammetoru - again. From 2004, it’s an ambient, downtempo, somewhat glitch-based electronic instrumental album. Beautiful and relaxing, I think I must have listened to this while working more than 100 times over the years. I’ve always assumed, on no particular basis, that Myrakaru was... [Read More]
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