My name is Axel Leon, I am a startup founder and an independent AI researcher.
Following this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, I dedicated much time to reviewing a great amount of panel discussions and supplementary commentary, which has given me a perspective that would otherwise remain elusive. While Davos isn't a platform for direct policy creation, it works
"When I look at things, I could see, 'This could be better.'" — Karri Saarinen "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." — attributed to many What Makes a Brand? Lessons in Design and Trust Most people think of a brand as only the logo or the color
Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the most exciting areas of artificial intelligence today. Deriving from behavioural psychology, particularly the concepts of operant conditioning and trial-and-error learning, RL at its essence is about teaching an AI agent to align with a goal via sequential decisions that lead to the highest
Exploration vs. Exploitation: How an AI Agent Learns What Works Imagine an AI “agent” — a little decision‑maker, dropped into a world where it doesn’t know much. It has a rather hedonistic goal: to accumulate as much reward as possible (points, or wins, or good outcomes). They don'
Amidst the unraveling ecosystem of Artificial Intelligence, two shifts are currently redesigning the sector: the emergence of an AI powerhouse in the Middle East, and the recalibration of digital protections in Europe. While one part of the globe gets its hands on cutting-edge AI chips and builds a colossal data
How a Century-Old Idea Powers Modern AI When people think of artificial intelligence, they often imagine powerful models that remember everything — tracking patterns across vast amounts of historical data. And in many modern systems, like deep learning networks, that’s largely true. But one of the most fundamental ideas in
Just what makes a visionary company? Almost always they are the premier institutions, the crown jewels in their industry. It is the question that the book "Built to Last" by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras answers quite thoroughly - a compelling book amongst others that I
AI’s capabilities are fundamentally driven by massive computational power. Computation acts as the “engine” that allows AI systems to function. Modern AI models — especially deep learning networks and large language models, demand immense processing capacity to perform the millions (or even billions) of mathematical operations involved in training and
Welcome. My name is Axel Leon: a founder of two companies, an independent ML researcher, and an avid explorer of wide-ranging disciplines within the sciences and history. This blog is where I bring together some of my thoughts connecting artificial intelligence, mathematics, and society. Here, I’ll take you inside
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