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a vast selection of possible future moves. But the majority of predictions of AI, e.g., robotic maids, turned out to be illusory. When Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, the most 20 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016823 powerful room-cleaning robot was a Roomba, which moved around vacuuming at random and squeake
ng us. The fruit of the long history of Brockman’s profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI—from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek and Stephen Wolfram— Deep Thinking 1s an ideal introduction to the landscape of crucial issues AI presents. The c
e is the author of AB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Designing Reality, and founder of the global fab lab network. Alison Gopnik is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley; her books include The Philosophical Baby and, most recently, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter: What the
ne article described Deep Blue’s victory not as that of a computer, which was just a dumb machine, but as the victory of hundreds of programmers over Kasparov, a single individual. That way of programming is changing dramatically. After a long hiatus, the power of machine learning has taken off. Much of th
, we programmed computers using algorithms we understood at least in principle. So when machines did amazing things like beating world chess champion Garry Kasparov, we could say that the victorious programs were designed with algorithms based on our own understanding—using, in this instance, the experience and a
tic and non-utilitarian in its plurality of perspectives and diversity of understandings will undoubtedly be essential. 150 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016953 Alison Gopnik is an international leader in the field of children’s learning and development and was one of the founders of the field of “theory of mind.” She has
a vast selection of possible future moves. But the majority of predictions of AI, e.g., robotic maids, turned out to be illusory. When Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess in 1997, the most 20 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016240 powerful room-cleaning robot was a Roomba, which moved around vacuuming at random and squeake
ng us. The fruit of the long history of Brockman’s profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI—from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek and Stephen Wolfram— Deep Thinking 1s an ideal introduction to the landscape of crucial issues AI presents. The c
e is the author of AB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Designing Reality, and founder of the global fab lab network. Alison Gopnik is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley; her books include The Philosophical Baby and, most recently, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter: What the
ne article described Deep Blue’s victory not as that of a computer, which was just a dumb machine, but as the victory of hundreds of programmers over Kasparov, a single individual. That way of programming is changing dramatically. After a long hiatus, the power of machine learning has taken off. Much of th
, we programmed computers using algorithms we understood at least in principle. So when machines did amazing things like beating world chess champion Garry Kasparov, we could say that the victorious programs were designed with algorithms based on our own understanding—using, in this instance, the experience and a
tic and non-utilitarian in its plurality of perspectives and diversity of understandings will undoubtedly be essential. 150 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016370 Alison Gopnik is an international leader in the field of children’s learning and development and was one of the founders of the field of “theory of mind.” She has
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