Ontology Explained

In this playlist, I go through Yudkowsky and Soares' book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. I'm starting out a skeptic, but we'll see where a charitable exegesis of the arguments leaves me (and you!).

You're welcome to read along, or just watch; I'll make sure there is enough context for everyone regardless.

Want to reason better and spot flaws in others' arguments? Learn about fallacies, which are just common mistakes in reasoning. This playlist starts by defining fallacies, and then goes through the major ones, one fallacy at a time.

For ontology novices and veterans alike, this playlist walks you through how this ontologist thinks about what ontologies are, what they are good for, how they relate to AI, and to go about building your own.

I interview and banter with friends, colleagues, and other smart people about ontologies, philosophy, and artificial intelligence.

A playlist for my videos on ethics.

This playlist walks through a series of possible definitions for AI, unpacks them, questions them, and then discusses why they matter.

By the end of this series, you'll see a functioning domain ontology for chess. Even the goals for the ontology will be developed in time, so this is as close as it gets to a real world example of ontology development, from "soup to nuts" as they say.

From the philosophical basis of logic to practical implementations of inference in OWL.

Each video after the initial overview will target a particular vocabulary or subset of a vocabulary. These will put more tools in your ontological tool belt to build and understand ontologies. We'll start with the basics: RDF, RDFS, OWL, SKOS. Then eventually we'll broaden out to more niche terms.