Epstein Secrets

n Turing wondered what it would take for machines to become intelligent. John von Neumann wondered what it would take for machines to self-reproduce. Claude Shannon wondered what it would take for machines to communicate reliably, no matter how much noise intervened. Norbert Wiener wondered how long it wo

a physicist and director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. He 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 a

, “A Scientist Rebels,” Zhe Atlantic Monthly, January 1947. 31 Warren Weaver, “Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication,” in Claude Shannon & Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1949), p. 8 (emphasis in original). Shan

a physicist and director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of FAB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Designing Reality, and founder of the global fab lab network. Discussions about artificial intelligence have been oddly ahistorical. They could better be described as

n Turing wondered what it would take for machines to become intelligent. John von Neumann wondered what it would take for machines to self-reproduce. Claude Shannon wondered what it would take for machines to communicate reliably, no matter how much noise intervened. Norbert Wiener wondered how long it wo

a physicist and director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. He 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 a

, “A Scientist Rebels,” Zhe Atlantic Monthly, January 1947. 31 Warren Weaver, “Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication,” in Claude Shannon & Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1949), p. 8 (emphasis in original). Shan

a physicist and director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. He is the author of FAB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Designing Reality, and founder of the global fab lab network. Discussions about artificial intelligence have been oddly ahistorical. They could better be described as