Epstein Secrets

se are the thoughts we would most like to study. It might be that computers are not yet powerful enough, and in another few years they will be giving Mozart a run for his money. But there may also be a fundamental difference which renders them incapable of this sort of thinking. This is the crux of the mo

. 2, Computer History Museum, CA HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015705 16 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? of these skills were lost in the Dark Ages but, once the Renaissance was underway in the 16" and 17" centuries, complex mechanical clocks were devised that were capable of predicting the motions of the planets to a hig

the web. Some people appear to have creativity in abundance and the things they create are truly wonderful. I’m thinking here of Picasso, Einstein, Mozart, Edison, or Maxwell, but a precise definition of creative thinking is hard to pin down. Here are some generally accepted categories: Divergent Think

ating the first plays; tragedies, comedies and the like, but serious thinkers thought of them as documenting the human condition. It wasn't until the Renaissance, 1500 years later, that humans began to appreciate that they create knowledge, and this started us on our quest to understand creativity. One of my c

uld change in economics. My pantheon in music is Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner and Mahler. Mahler, the last-born, died in 1911 at 51. What about Mozart? Clearly colossal. Listen to the slow movements of almost any of his piano concertos. Childlike simplicity, then a slight surprise, then another, and

ks, inevitably leveraged at 10:1 or more, are the weak link explaining economic collapses about once a generation since the system was founded in the Renaissance. Misdeeds and misguesses and world events were only the proximate cause. Chicanery will be with us forever. Honest bad judgment will be with us forev

st unimaginable amounts of computing power - but what emerges is a subtle, lively kind of insight. A machine with a representational understanding of Mozart's 41 symphonies can write you an extremely convincing 424 - or, if you wish, an even earlier First Symphony based on what it knows about his evolutio

!. The mouse. Laser printing. A graphical user interface. PARC was arguably the most economically significant small group in human history, an entire Renaissance packed into a couple of dozen offices. Just as the nations that produced the finest mariners once dominated global commerce and decided political que