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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
ing a place to begin. New Technologies=New Perceptions Before AI, there was Cybernetics—the idea of automatic, self-regulating control, laid out in Norbert Wiener’s foundational text of 1948. I can date my own serious exposure to it to 1966, when the composer John Cage invited me and four or five other young arts
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
agic or mysticism of an earlier age— as by their modern-sounding insights. I detect that same doubleness—the zig-zag origami folds of old and new—in Norbert Wiener’s classic The Human Use of Human Beings. First published in 1950 and revised in 1954, the book is in many ways extraordinarily prescient. Wiener, the M
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
ing a place to begin. New Technologies=New Perceptions Before AI, there was Cybernetics—the idea of automatic, self-regulating control, laid out in Norbert Wiener’s foundational text of 1948. I can date my own serious exposure to it to 1966, when the composer John Cage invited me and four or five other young arts
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
agic or mysticism of an earlier age— as by their modern-sounding insights. I detect that same doubleness—the zig-zag origami folds of old and new—in Norbert Wiener’s classic The Human Use of Human Beings. First published in 1950 and revised in 1954, the book is in many ways extraordinarily prescient. Wiener, the M
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