Epstein Secrets

is the chord that falsifies" 106. Stevens, keThirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" op. cit., p. 92. airA man and . . . blackbird / Are one" 107. Bertrand Russell, quoted in Jeans, The New Background of Science, p. 295. keNot a persistent . .. than fleeting thoughts" 108. Jeans, Ibid. keMatter of solid . . .

ooks: The Hidden Dimension (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966) and The Silent Language (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959). A A 31 Wiener, op. cit., p. 325. kenew concepts of .. . and of society.' A A 14. Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (New York: The Free Press, 1

y-five years ago, I was visiting Marvin Minsky, one of the original AI pioneers, and asked him about Dan. “He’s our best current philosopher—the next Bertrand Russell,” said Marvin, adding that unlike traditional philosophers, Dan was a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science

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

y-five years ago, I was visiting Marvin Minsky, one of the original AI pioneers, and asked him about Dan. “He’s our best current philosopher—the next Bertrand Russell,” said Marvin, adding that unlike traditional philosophers, Dan was a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science

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