Epstein Secrets

AI—from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek and Stephen Wolfram— Deep Thinking 1s an ideal in

ry of Brockman’s profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI—from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek and Stephen Wolfram— Deep Thinking 1s an ideal introduction to the landscape of crucial issues AI presents. The collision between opposing perspecti

rol, planning, estimation, learning, and cognitive science. Barely into her thirties herself, she has co-authored a number of papers with her veteran Berkeley colleague and mentor Stuart Russell which address various aspects of machine learning and the knotty problems of value alignment. She shares Stuart’

ces at UC Berkeley. She co-founded and serves on the steering committee for the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab and is a co-principal investigator in Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AI. George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the Kayak, Darwin Among the Mach

AI—from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek and Stephen Wolfram— Deep Thinking 1s an ideal in

ry of Brockman’s profound engagement with the most important scientific minds who have been thinking about AI—from Alison Gopnik and David Deutsch to Frank Wilczek and Stephen Wolfram— Deep Thinking 1s an ideal introduction to the landscape of crucial issues AI presents. The collision between opposing perspecti

rol, planning, estimation, learning, and cognitive science. Barely into her thirties herself, she has co-authored a number of papers with her veteran Berkeley colleague and mentor Stuart Russell which address various aspects of machine learning and the knotty problems of value alignment. She shares Stuart’

ces at UC Berkeley. She co-founded and serves on the steering committee for the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab and is a co-principal investigator in Berkeley’s Center for Human-Compatible AI. George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the Kayak, Darwin Among the Mach

for all sensible quantum field theories, except for Yang-Mills-type gauge theories. Gross now took on a new graduate student, twenty-one-year-old Frank Wilczek, who had come to Princeton from the University of Chi- cago planning to study mathematics, but who switched to physics after taking Gross's graduate

her lucky or astute because he served as the graduate supervisor of probably the two most remarkable intellects among physi- cists in my generation, Wilczek and Edward Witten, who helped lead the string theory revolution in the 198os and '9os and who is the only physicist ever to win the prestigious Fie

theory—the suc- cessful framework that had so beautifully provided an understanding of the relativistic quantum behavior of electrons and photons. Berkeley physicist Geoffrey Chew led the development of a popu- lar, influential program to address this problem. Chew gave up the idea that any truly fundam

ound states of other particles. In this sense, there could be no reduction to primary fundamental objects. In this Zen-like picture, appropriate to Berkeley in the 196os, all particles were thought to be made up of other particles—the so-called bootstrap model, in which no elementary particles were prim

. Craig Venter, Archibald Wheeler (Estate), Frank Wilczek, Ian Wilmut, Steve Wozniak, Shing- Tung Yau, and

Lee Smolin, George Smoot, Paul Steinhardt, Leonard Susskind, Nassim Taleb, Neil Turok, Robert Trivers, J. Craig Venter, Archibald Wheeler (Estate), Frank Wilczek, Ian Wilmut, Steve Wozniak, Shing- Tung Yau, and Anton Zeilinger. Please see our on-line press file at: http://www.brockman.com/press/ A list of se

urg, VA David Buss, Psychologist, U. of Texas, Austin William Calvin, Neuroscientist, U. of Washington Fritjof Capra, Director, Elmwood Institute, Berkeley, CA Sean Carroll, Physicist, CalTech Daniel Charles, Technology Correspondent, NPR Michael Castleman, Health and Medical Writer, San Francisco Ni

rize winners, are meeting in the U.S. Virgin Islands to debate the structure of the universe. Nobel prize winners Gerardus 't Hoeft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek, and experimental and theoretical physics pioneer Stephen Hawking are among the minds that have converged in the island of St. Thomas to discuss so

ions, such as the existence of black holes and alternate dimensions. "This is a remarkable group, as far as the level of people who are here," said Wilczek, who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics with Gross and H. David Politzer for their explanation of the force that binds particles inside the atomic

, Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Erik Mueller (IBM T. J. WatsonResearch Center), Srini Narayanan (University of California, Berkeley), Ashwin Ram (Georgia Institute of Technology), Doug Riecken (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Roger Schank (Carnegie Mellon University), Mary She

s H. Townes, Freeman J. Dyson, Roy J. Glauber, John L. Hall, Theodore W. Hansch, Wolfgang Ketterle, John L. Heilbron, Peter L. Galison, Michio Kaku, Frank Wilczek, Yakir Aharonov, Jeffrey Tollaksen, David J. Gross, Anthony J. Leggett, Raphael Bousso, Steven S. Gubser, Adrian T. Lee, Marc Kamionkowski, Saul Per

. Heilbron, Peter L. Galison, Michio Kaku, Frank Wilczek, Yakir Aharonov, Jeffrey Tollaksen, David J. Gros

40 EFTA02414654 Visions of Discovery New Light on Physics, Cosmology, and Consciousness • Edited by: Raymond Y. Chiao, University of California, Berkeley • Edited by: Marvin L. Cohen, University of California, Berkeley • Edited by: Anthony J. Leggett, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign • Edite

Theoretical Physicist, Past President, SFI Frank Wilczek, Physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 2004, MIT Ian

c Researcher, J. Craig Venter Institute Alexander Vilenkin, Cosmologist, Tufts University Geoffrey West, Theoretical Physicist, Past President, SFI Frank Wilczek, Physicist, Nobel Prize for Physics 2004, MIT Ian Wilmut, Animal Researcher, U of Edinburgh Tim Wilson, Social Psychologist, University of Virginia

cientist, Carnegie Mellon Evgeny Morozov, Social Commentator, FOREIGN POLICY Sendhil Mullainathan, Economist, Harvard Richard Muller, Physicist, UC, Berkeley Richard Nisbett, Social Psychologist, U. of Michigan Martin Nowak, Mathematical Biologist, Harvard Tim O'Reilly, Founder, O'Reilly Media Svante Paa

Prize winners, are meeting in the U.S. Virgin Islands to debate the structure of the universe. Nobel prize winners Gerardo 't Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek, and experimental and theoretical physics pioneer Stephen Hawking are among the minds that have converged in the island of St Thomas to discuss som

ions, such as the existence of black holes and alternate dimensions. "This is a remarkable group, as far as the level of people who arc here," said Wilczek, who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics with Gross and H. David Politzer for their explanation of the force that binds particles inside the atomic

Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Erik Mueller (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Srini Narayanan (University of California, Berkeley), Ashwin Ram (Georgia Institute of Technology), Doug Riecken (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Roger Schenk (Carnegie Mellon University), Mary She

rize winners, are meeting in the U.S. Virgin Islands to debate the structure of the universe. Nobel prize winners Gerardus 't Hooft, David Gross and Frank Wilczek, and experimental and theoretical physics pioneer Stephen Hawking are among the minds that have converged in the island of St. Thomas to discuss so

ions, such as the existence of black holes and alternate dimensions. "This is a remarkable group, as far as the level of people who are here," said Wilczek, who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics with Gross and H. David Politzer for their explanation of the force that binds particles inside the atomic

Marvin Minsky (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Erik Mueller (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Srini Narayanan (University of California, Berkeley), Ashwin Ram (Georgia Institute of Technology), Doug Riecken (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center), Roger Schank (Carnegie Mellon University), Mary She

ied to children and the disabled.*° What prevents extension to other animals, organoids, machines, and hybrids? As we (e.g., Hawking, Musk, Tallinn, Wilczek, Tegmark) have promoted bans on “autonomous weapons,” we have demonized one type of “dumb” machine, while other machines—for instance, those composed

that she treats them coldly, as if they were mere laboratory animals. They appear to revel in her company, and in the blinking, thrumming toys in her Berkeley lab. For years after her own children had outgrown it, she kept a playpen in her office. Her investigations into just how we learn, and the parallel