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

ns had perfected their calculations to predict the motion of Venus and it proved reliable over a whole century? Would this constitute understanding? Feynman would say no: the Mayan understanding was not complete. It was only black box equivalent to our modern understanding over a limited period. We known

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

drives creativity. There are also some myths to dispel about creative people. Inventors are portrayed as eccentric and hopelessly disorganized, but Feynman kept notes of every idea he ever had. I have kept a series of notebooks, now computer based, since J left university. I still have almost all of thes

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

was the time that Hillis asked Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman to tip him off about any smart scientists Thinking Machines might hire. Feynman, pushing 60, volunteered himself and spent his summer vacations for the next ten years with Hillis and his team.1?! When it came time to test the fir