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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
to you. They have to know what the human is confused about. What has long been difficult for me to understand is, What’s the point of a conventional Turing Test? What’s the motivation? As a toy, one could make a little chat bot that people could chat with. That will be the next thing. The current round of dee
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
to you. They have to know what the human is confused about. What has long been difficult for me to understand is, What’s the point of a conventional Turing Test? What’s the motivation? As a toy, one could make a little chat bot that people could chat with. That will be the next thing. The current round of dee
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
his past behavior includes quirks and habits of the human pilot, thus a mechanized device can predict the behavior of humans. Like Alan Turing, whose Turing Test suggested that computing machines could give responses to questions which were indistinguishable from human responses, Wiener was fascinated by the n
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
his past behavior includes quirks and habits of the human pilot, thus a mechanized device can predict the behavior of humans. Like Alan Turing, whose Turing Test suggested that computing machines could give responses to questions which were indistinguishable from human responses, Wiener was fascinated by the n
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