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anthropomorphic way, our fears about AI reflect this belief that our intelligence is what makes us special. But if we step back and look at life on Earth, we see that we are far from the most resilient species. If we’re going to be taken over at some point, it will be by some of Earth’s oldest life-for
e first meeting (in Washington, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this book, he commented on the change in how “information” is viewed since Wiener’s time: the military-industrial, Cold War era. Back then, Wiener compared information, metaphorically, to entropy, in that it could not be conserved—
and directed the slaves as they mindlessly (mechanically) churned their oars. The Greek had already migrated into modern English via Latin, going 47 Wiener later had to admit the earlier coinage of the word in 1834 by André-Marie Ampére, who had intended it to mean the “science of government,” a concept
anthropomorphic way, our fears about AI reflect this belief that our intelligence is what makes us special. But if we step back and look at life on Earth, we see that we are far from the most resilient species. If we’re going to be taken over at some point, it will be by some of Earth’s oldest life-for
e first meeting (in Washington, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this book, he commented on the change in how “information” is viewed since Wiener’s time: the military-industrial, Cold War era. Back then, Wiener compared information, metaphorically, to entropy, in that it could not be conserved—
and directed the slaves as they mindlessly (mechanically) churned their oars. The Greek had already migrated into modern English via Latin, going 47 Wiener later had to admit the earlier coinage of the word in 1834 by André-Marie Ampére, who had intended it to mean the “science of government,” a concept
ich was wild with metaphorical imagery: circular tubes full of fire, small holes through which celestial fire was visible as stars, and hemispherical Earth riding on turtleback. It was this wild modeling strategy, not Babylonian extrapolation, that jolted Eratosthenes (276- 194 BC) to perform one of the
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
ich was wild with metaphorical imagery: circular tubes full of fire, small holes through which celestial fire was visible as stars, and hemispherical Earth riding on turtleback. It was this wild modeling strategy, not Babylonian extrapolation, that jolted Eratosthenes (276- 194 BC) to perform one of the
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
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