Epstein Secrets

fic even though no one seems to be in control. There are three laws of artificial intelligence. The first, known as Ashby’s Law, after cybernetician W. Ross Ashby, author of Design for a Brain, states that any effective control system must be as complex as the system it controls. The second law, articulated by

e global fab lab network. Alison Gopnik is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley; her books include The Philosophical Baby and, most recently, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016805 T

rence to make a difference. In this way of looking at the world, a control system needed to be as complex as the system it controlled. Cyberneticist W. Ross Ashby proved that this was true in a precise mathematical sense, in what is now called Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety, or sometimes the First Law of Cybe

. “L. Schulz, “The origins of Inquiry: Inductive inference and exploration in early childhood,” Trends Cog. Sci., 16:7, 382-89 (2012). 4 A. Gopnik, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016), chaps. 4 and 5. 157 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016960 paradox of learning, the best artificial i

fic even though no one seems to be in control. There are three laws of artificial intelligence. The first, known as Ashby’s Law, after cybernetician W. Ross Ashby, author of Design for a Brain, states that any effective control system must be as complex as the system it controls. The second law, articulated by

e global fab lab network. Alison Gopnik is a developmental psychologist at UC Berkeley; her books include The Philosophical Baby and, most recently, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016222 T

rence to make a difference. In this way of looking at the world, a control system needed to be as complex as the system it controlled. Cyberneticist W. Ross Ashby proved that this was true in a precise mathematical sense, in what is now called Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety, or sometimes the First Law of Cybe

. “L. Schulz, “The origins of Inquiry: Inductive inference and exploration in early childhood,” Trends Cog. Sci., 16:7, 382-89 (2012). 4 A. Gopnik, Zhe Gardener and the Carpenter (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016), chaps. 4 and 5. 157 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016377 paradox of learning, the best artificial i