Epstein Secrets

of human systems in ways you could never do before.” 134 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016937 THE HUMAN STRATEGY Alex “Sandy” Pentland Alex “Sandy” Pentland is Toshiba Professor and professor of media arts and sciences, MIT; director of the Human Dynamics and Connection Science labs and the Media Lab Entrepreneurshi

e first meeting (in Washington, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this book, he commented on the change in how “information” is viewed since Wiener’s time: the military-industrial, Cold War era. Back then, Wiener compared information, metaphorically, to entropy, in that it could not be conserved—

and directed the slaves as they mindlessly (mechanically) churned their oars. The Greek had already migrated into modern English via Latin, going 47 Wiener later had to admit the earlier coinage of the word in 1834 by André-Marie Ampére, who had intended it to mean the “science of government,” a concept

of human systems in ways you could never do before.” 134 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016354 THE HUMAN STRATEGY Alex “Sandy” Pentland Alex “Sandy” Pentland is Toshiba Professor and professor of media arts and sciences, MIT; director of the Human Dynamics and Connection Science labs and the Media Lab Entrepreneurshi

e first meeting (in Washington, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this book, he commented on the change in how “information” is viewed since Wiener’s time: the military-industrial, Cold War era. Back then, Wiener compared information, metaphorically, to entropy, in that it could not be conserved—

and directed the slaves as they mindlessly (mechanically) churned their oars. The Greek had already migrated into modern English via Latin, going 47 Wiener later had to admit the earlier coinage of the word in 1834 by André-Marie Ampére, who had intended it to mean the “science of government,” a concept

of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA. His most recent book, co-authored with Dana Mackenzie, is Zhe Book of Why: The Alex “Sandy” Pentland is Toshiba Professor and professor of media arts and sciences, MIT; director of the Human Dynamics and Connection Science labs and the Media Lab Entrepreneurshi

at our door.” In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener’s words again. In Deep Thinking, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Broc

of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA. His most recent book, co-authored with Dana Mackenzie, is Zhe Book of Why: The Alex “Sandy” Pentland is Toshiba Professor and professor of media arts and sciences, MIT; director of the Human Dynamics and Connection Science labs and the Media Lab Entrepreneurshi

at our door.” In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener’s words again. In Deep Thinking, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Broc