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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

s 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 Machines, Project Orion, and Turing ’s Cathedral. P

ul in all walks of life, and the dangers they incur of the carnal sins of pride and of lust for power.” This jeremiad did not go well for Wiener. As Dyson puts it: These alarms were discounted at the time, not because Wiener was wrong about digital computing but because larger threats were looming as h

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

s 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 Machines, Project Orion, and Turing ’s Cathedral. P

ul in all walks of life, and the dangers they incur of the carnal sins of pride and of lust for power.” This jeremiad did not go well for Wiener. As Dyson puts it: These alarms were discounted at the time, not because Wiener was wrong about digital computing but because larger threats were looming as h

id Kaiser, Seth Lloyd, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Judea Pearl, Sandy Pentland, Steven Pinker, Venki Ramakrishnan, Stuart Russell, Jaan Tallin, Max Tegmark, Frank Wilczek, and Stephen Wolfram. Stewart Brand, in his jacket blurb, nicely frames the project: "Intelligences born and intelligences made have a lot to offe

, Stuart Russell, Jaan Tallin, Max Tegmark, Frank Wilczek, and Stephen Wolfram. Stewart Brand, in his jac

September 7th-9th. The participants in the book are Chris Anderson, Rodney Brooks, George M. Church, Daniel C. Dennett, David Deutsch, Anca Dragan, George Dyson, Peter Galison, Neil Gershenfeld, Alison Gopnik, Tom Griffiths, Danny Hillis, Caroline A. Jones, David Kaiser, Seth Lloyd, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Judea

echanical engineer Seth Lloyd; the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett; the physicists Freeman Dyson, Neil Gershenfeld, Lawrence Krauss, Judea Pearl, and Frank Wilczek; the psychologist Daniel Goleman; the precision cosmologist Max Tegmark; the robotocists Rodney Brooks and Chris Anderson, the science historians P

henfeld, Lawrence Krauss, Judea Pearl, and Frank Wilczek; the psychologist Daniel Goleman; the precision c

gist Daniel Goleman; the precision cosmologist Max Tegmark; the robotocists Rodney Brooks and Chris Anderson, the science historians Peter Galison, George Dyson, and David Kaiser; the technologist Jaan Tallin; the cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths, the writers Kevin Kelly and Pamela McCorduck. As Daniel C.

. 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

ients include Chris Anderson (Wired), Stewart Brand, Rodney Brooks, Nicholas Carr, George Church, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Jared Diamond, George Dyson, Gerald Edelman, Michael Gazzaniga, Murray Gell- Mann, Neil Gershenfeld, Daniel Gilbert, Daniel Goleman, Brian Greene, Alan Guth, W. Daniel Hillis, D

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n Calacanis/Jade Li Calacanis Nicholas Carr Jerry Coyne Richard Dawkins/Lala Ward Daniel C. Dennett/Sue Dennett EFTA_R1_00214366 EFTA01834961 George Dyson Murray Gell-Mann Harry Gittes Alan Guth Salar Kamangar Kevin Kelly Jaron Lanier Andre Linde Seth Lloyd Marvin Minsky/Gloria Rudisch Nathan My

tly used by modern physicists to establish deep relationships between physical quantities. I just used it last year, for example, with my colleague Frank Wilczek, to demonstrate a fundamental property of gravity relevant to understanding the creation of our universe. Each contribution on its own would have f

last year, for example, with my colleague Frank Wilczek, to demonstrate a fundamental property of gravit

er hope of a world where any dream, no matter how outlandish, is realizable. Other familiar names, Bohr, Schrodinger, Dirac, and later Feynman and Dyson, each made great leaps into the unknown. But they weren't alone. Physics is a collaborative discipline. Too often science stories are written as if

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ledgments We are grateful to Freeman Dyson for stimulating our interest in this question and to the organizers of the 90th birthday celebration for Dyson at the NTU in Singapore, where he lectured on this subject. We also thank Andrew Long, Subir $abharwal, Tannery Vachaspati for useful discussions an

ical engineer Seth Lloyd; the philosopher Daniel C. Dennett; the =hysicists Freeman Dyson, Neil Gershenfeld, Lawrence Krauss, Judea Pearl, and =rank Wilczek; the psychologist Daniel Goleman; the precision cosmologist Max =egmark; the robotocists Rodney Brooks and Chris Anderson, the science =istorians Pe

ogist Daniel Goleman; the precision cosmologist Max =egmark; the robotocists Rodney Brooks and Chris Anderson, the science =istorians Peter Galison, George Dyson, and David Kaiser; the technologist Jaan Tallin; =he cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths, the writers Kevin Kelly and Pamela =cCorduck. As Daniel C.