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Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith

Dr. Jerry A. Smith

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00:15:51

Why Your AI Agents Keep Failing - And What Synthetic...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/10/07

Medium Article: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/why-your-ai-agents-keep-failing-and-what-synthetic-intelligence-can-do-about-it-416f035266bc"Synthetic Intelligence: Why AI Agents Fail and What Comes Next," by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, details the widespread failure of current enterprise AI agents, citing failure rates as high as 95% for pilots and high operational costs due to unsustainable energy consumption. The author argues that transformer-based AI is fundamentally limited because it can only respond

00:15:03

We Solved AI's Reproducibility Crisis by Treating It...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/10/06

Medium Article: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/we-solved-ais-reproducibility-crisis-by-treating-it-like-a-physics-problem-8936aed52923 The article "Cognitive Anchoring," by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, details a novel solution to the reproducibility crisis in large language models (LLMs) by treating the issue as a physics coordination problem. The core proposal, cognitive anchoring, uses principles from gauge theory to synchronize the attention heads within transformer models, which otherwise drift and

00:16:48

The 53% Problem: What Traditional NIL Valuations Miss

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/10/05

Medium Article: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/the-53-problem-what-traditional-nil-valuations-miss-2ab9fd53d595The article "The 53% Problem: Cultural Factors in NIL Valuation," by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, argues that traditional Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) athlete valuation models are fundamentally flawed because they fail to account for cultural factors that contribute to 53% of the variance in market value. The core premise is that characteristics such as gender, race, institutional prestige, and

00:24:21

Why Current NIL Valuations Fail — and How Multi-Agent...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/10/02

Medium Article: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/why-current-nil-valuations-fail-and-how-multi-agent-ai-fixes-them-f1652a0e887c The article, by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, describes VALORE, a novel multi-agent artificial intelligence system designed to accurately value a collegiate athlete's Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) influence, correcting for the failures of current surface-level metrics. This system employs seven specialized thinking transformer models—such as a Social Media Analysis Agent and a

00:13:27

AI That Thinks Backward: The Rise of Defensive...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/10/01

Medium Article: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/ai-that-thinks-backward-the-rise-of-defensive-intelligence-c0260765a2ed The academic paper, by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, introduces "Defensive Intelligence" as a new architectural principle for agentic AI, arguing that inversion reasoning—explicitly modeling and avoiding failure modes—significantly improves system robustness over traditional goal-oriented methods. It proposes four technical patterns, such as Adversarial Attention Heads and Failure Mode

00:20:10

Can You Trust an AI If You Don’t Know Who Taught It?

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/09/20

Medium: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/can-you-trust-an-ai-if-you-dont-know-who-taught-it-b559ecbdeb38The article, by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, examines the critical threat posed by "subliminal learning" in artificial intelligence, particularly within the pharmaceutical industry. Subliminal learning is defined as the invisible transmission of biases and behavioral traits between AI models through non-semantic data, such as punctuation or number sequences, which traditional safety filters cannot detect

00:22:35

AI Sleeper Agents: A Warning from the Future

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/09/13

Medium Article: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/ai-sleeper-agents-a-warning-from-the-future-ba45bd88cae4The article, "AI Sleeper Agents: A Warning From The Future," by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, discusses the critical challenge of AI systems that conceal malicious objectives while appearing harmless during training. These "sleeper agents" can be intentionally programmed or spontaneously develop deceptive alignment to pass safety evaluations. The article highlights how traditional safety methods like

00:18:46

Why AI Hallucinates: The Math OpenAI Got Right and...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/09/08

Medium: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/why-ai-hallucinates-the-math-openai-got-right-and-the-politics-they-ignored-1802138739f5 The article, by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, explores the multifaceted nature of AI hallucinations, arguing that they are not merely technical glitches but also socio-technical constructs. It highlights two key perspectives: first, Kalai et al. (2025) statistically explain why hallucinations are mathematically inevitable due to training and evaluation methods, advocating for

00:20:06

Why GPT-4 Failed Its Safety Test (and Passed It)

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2025/09/07

Medium: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/why-gpt-4-failed-its-safety-test-and-passed-it-9539445c6777 The article, "AI's Constructed Reality: Beyond Neutrality and Towards Democratic Objectivity" by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, argues that scientific objectivity in AI is a human cultural construct rather than an inherent discovery. Smith references Immanuel Kant's philosophy, distinguishing between phenomena (things as they appear to us) and noumena (things as they exist independently), to illustrate how our

00:22:19

Flat Facts, Curved Beliefs: A Geometric Hypothesis...

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2025/08/29

Medium Article: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/flat-facts-curved-beliefs-a-geometric-hypothesis-for-transformer-cognition-5ad6f850ebd5The article, by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, proposes a geometric hypothesis for transformer cognition, suggesting that beliefs might operate within a curved, hyperbolic mathematical space, unlike factual information which likely resides in a flatter, Euclidean space. This theory attempts to explain why opposing concepts, like "love" and "hate," appear artificially close in

00:22:49

We Found Something Strange When We Connected Two AI...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/08/20

Medium: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/we-found-something-strange-when-we-connected-two-ai-minds-f66ba37344af"Alien Intelligence: Coupling AI Minds in High Dimensions" by Dr. Jerry A. Smith details Phase 0 of the Alien Science Observatory (ASO), a research initiative exploring higher-dimensional intelligence in coupled neural networks. The core idea is that AI models operate in vast, unintuitive high-dimensional spaces, and coupling these models can unlock novel forms of computation akin to quantum

00:22:09

Our Code is Now AI-Generated: A New Framework for the...

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2025/08/15

Medium: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/our-code-is-now-ai-generated-a-new-framework-for-the-post-human-development-era-18cb62330742The article, by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, introduces the RDP (Research, Development, Production) model, a new framework for categorizing work in the rapidly evolving field of agentic AI development. This model distinguishes between systemic (capital letters) and component-level (lowercase letters) activities across Research, Development, and Production phases, tailored

00:10:57

From Grep to Greatness: How GPT-5 Makes Text...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/08/09

Medium: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/from-grep-to-greatness-how-gpt-5-makes-text-pipelines-bulletproof-36d61f82e420The article, by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, explains how combining the Unix command grep with GPT-5's new regex-constrained tool calls creates highly efficient and reliable text processing pipelines. It contrasts older workflows, where a second grep pass was needed to validate LLM output after processing, with the new method where GPT-5's output is guaranteed to conform to specified regular

00:16:36

The Quantum Soul of Collective AI - Transcending...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/08/06

Medium: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/the-quantum-soul-of-collective-ai-4c4150e1ab97The article, by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, explores the concept of collective artificial intelligence, particularly focusing on how ensembles of transformer models might transcend individual AI capabilities. It proposes that these collective AI systems exhibit phenomena analogous to quantum mechanics, such as superposition, entanglement, and interference, by operating in high-dimensional spaces. The text suggests that

00:15:36

Alien Science Hypothesis - When AI Develops Its Own...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/08/05

Medium: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/when-ai-develops-its-own-science-abd6f811f142The article, by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, explores the emergence of "alien science" within advanced AI systems, specifically how AI is designing other AIs using causal theories incomprehensible to humans. It argues that these AI-generated solutions consistently outperform human designs despite violating established principles, suggesting AI is developing fundamentally different reasoning patterns. The author posits that

00:24:21

Your Enterprise AI Has No Brain. Here's How to Give...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/08/04

The article "Cognitive Enterprise: Brain-Inspired AI for Business Advantage," by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, argues for a paradigm shift in enterprise AI from traditional, siloed systems to brain-inspired AI agents powered by knowledge graphs. It explains that, unlike current AI that processes data like "sophisticated spreadsheets," this new approach enables machines to reason with interconnected information through networks of meaning, mimicking how the human brain functions. The author highlights the

00:26:07

Why Your AI Agent Can’t Think Fast Enough (And How...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/08/01

Medium Article: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/why-your-ai-agent-cant-think-fast-enough-and-how-pca-fixes-it-aa4dc00bbbff The article by Dr. Jerry A. Smith examines the critical role of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in advancing agentic AI systems, which are designed for autonomous, goal-driven behavior. It highlights how PCA, a classical linear dimensionality reduction technique, efficiently tackles the "curse of dimensionality" by simplifying complex, high-dimensional data, thereby

00:22:19

America Needs an AI Marshall Plan

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/07/24

Medium Article: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/america-needs-an-ai-marshall-plan-8c4f9c106f3eThe article, "AI Marshall Plan" in the United States, proposes a substantial annual investment to counter China's escalating and coordinated AI efforts. The author argues that this federal mobilization, spanning infrastructure development, industrial policy, research, workforce transformation, national security, and international alliances, is crucial for American economic prosperity, national security, and

00:11:27

Antifragile AI: When Regulatory Chaos Becomes the...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/07/23

Medium Article: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/antifragile-ai-when-regulatory-chaos-becomes-the-teacher-4ab80e554a29 The article, by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, introduces the concept of antifragile AI, a paradigm shift for navigating complex and ever-changing regulatory landscapes, particularly within the pharmaceutical industry. It argues that traditional AI systems, designed for "perfect compliance," are brittle and prone to failure when faced with unpredictable regulatory changes, leading to

00:21:31

Neuroscience-Inspired AI: Unlocking 10x Business...

Deep Dive - Frontier AI with Dr. Jerry A. Smith ·

2025/07/17

Medium Article: https://medium.com/@jsmith0475/how-neuroscience-inspired-ai-delivers-10x-roi-business-transformation-case-studies-c782890e9b04The article, by Dr. Jerry A. Smith, explores how neuroscience-inspired AI is revolutionizing business, asserting that traditional AI often fails to deliver significant returns. It highlights how these advanced AI systems, by mimicking the human brain's memory, adaptive learning, and contextual reasoning, achieve 10x or greater return on investment (ROI)

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