Epstein Secrets

rse in Design, Manufacturing and Management. They expect to spend the year walking among the city’s hallowed spires, attending lectures, bumping into Stephen Hawking and punting on the River Cam. Instead, they get quite a shock! In 1989, I joined the course. There were twenty-six engineers, a psychologist and a

spires, attending lectures, bumping into Stephen Hawking and punting on the River Cam. Instead, they get

hallowed spires, attending lectures, bumping into Stephen Hawking and punting on the River Cam. Instead, t

elligent? Meet Eliza. Invented by Joseph Weizenbaum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and named after George Bernard Shaw’s character in Pygmalion, Eliza runs an algorithm pretending to be a psychiatrist offering a sympathetic ear to anyone who cares to talk. Try her out at my website or read th

sness: The First Tucson Discussions and Debates. MIT Press, 1996. Harel, David. Computers Ltd: What They REALLY Can't Do. New Ed. OUP Oxford, 2003. Hawkins, Jeff, and Sandra Blakeslee. On Intelligence. Reprint. Owl Books (NY), 2005. Hofstadter, Douglas R. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. 20

drives 306 Harrison, John 365 Harry Potter 92, 306 Harvard Business School 306 Harvard University 224, 307 Hawking Bekenstein bound 6 Hawking, Stephen x, xvi, 6, 132, 306, 326, 339 hearing 113 heat-sight 102 Hebrew 86, 87 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 13 Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle 318, 3

indirect 244 mathematical 156 philosophical 246 Index 415 PSPACE problem 168 Pulitzer Prize 365, 367 purpose on the planet 9 puzzle two guards 151 Pygmalion 25 Pythagoras 243 Pythagorean triangle 240 Q quantitative numerical skills 30 quants 71 quantum brains 122 quantum computers 277 quantum crypto

ctrine, or philosophy,” cybersecurity researchers Stephen Cobb and Andrew Lee have written, “so we are unaw

uter might say. The natural language processor responsible for carrying on the human side of the conversation he called ELIZA, after the heroine from Pygmalion, a poor cockney girl who is trained by a phonetics professor to pass as a duchess. Here is a discussion between ELIZA and a user that Weizenbaum rec