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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
ht tomorrow’s artificial intelligence be different if practitioners were to re-invest in Wiener’s guiding vision of “information”? When Wiener wrote Zhe Human Use of Human Beings, his experiences of war-related research, and of what struck him as the moral ambiguities of intellectual life amid the military-industrial complex,
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
ht tomorrow’s artificial intelligence be different if practitioners were to re-invest in Wiener’s guiding vision of “information”? When Wiener wrote Zhe Human Use of Human Beings, his experiences of war-related research, and of what struck him as the moral ambiguities of intellectual life amid the military-industrial complex,
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
whip that lashes us.” Mind, Thinking, Intelligence Among the reasons we don’t hear much about “Cybernetics” today, two are central: First, although Zhe Human Use of Human Beings was considered an important book in its time, it ran counter to the aspirations of many of Wiener’s colleagues, including John von Neumann and Claude
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
whip that lashes us.” Mind, Thinking, Intelligence Among the reasons we don’t hear much about “Cybernetics” today, two are central: First, although Zhe Human Use of Human Beings was considered an important book in its time, it ran counter to the aspirations of many of Wiener’s colleagues, including John von Neumann and Claude
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