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ocess of control via feedback. (“Cybernetics,” from the ancient Greek for “helmsman,” is the etymological basis of our word “governor,” which is what James Watt called his pathbreaking feedback control device that transformed the use of steam engines.) Because he was immersed in problems of control, Wiener sa
way it was with the atomic bomb,” said J. Robert Oppenheimer. His words were echoed recently by Geoffrey Hinto
and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb,” said J. Robert Oppenheimer. His words were echoed recently by Geoffrey Hinton, arguably the inventor of deep learning, in the context of AI risk: “I could give you the usual ar
ocess of control via feedback. (“Cybernetics,” from the ancient Greek for “helmsman,” is the etymological basis of our word “governor,” which is what James Watt called his pathbreaking feedback control device that transformed the use of steam engines.) Because he was immersed in problems of control, Wiener sa
way it was with the atomic bomb,” said J. Robert Oppenheimer. His words were echoed recently by Geoffrey Hinto
and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb,” said J. Robert Oppenheimer. His words were echoed recently by Geoffrey Hinton, arguably the inventor of deep learning, in the context of AI risk: “I could give you the usual ar
ntury. 174 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016977 from kuber- to guber—the root of “gubernatorial” and “governor,” another term for masculine control, deployed by James Watt to describe his 19th-century device for modulating a runaway steam engine. Cybernetics thus took ideas that had long analogized people and devices an
hington, Connecticut, meeting he discussed the Cold War tension between engineers (like Wiener) and the administrators of the Manhattan Project (like Oppenheimer: “When [Wiener] warns about the dangers of cybernetics, in part he’s trying to compete against the kind of portentous language that people like Oppen
ntury. 174 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016394 from kuber- to guber—the root of “gubernatorial” and “governor,” another term for masculine control, deployed by James Watt to describe his 19th-century device for modulating a runaway steam engine. Cybernetics thus took ideas that had long analogized people and devices an
hington, Connecticut, meeting he discussed the Cold War tension between engineers (like Wiener) and the administrators of the Manhattan Project (like Oppenheimer: “When [Wiener] warns about the dangers of cybernetics, in part he’s trying to compete against the kind of portentous language that people like Oppen
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