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where they did their pioneering work on artificial neural networks.
and was responsible for bringing Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts to
thus a mechanized device can predict the behavior of humans. Like Alan Turing
he developed techniques for aiming antiaircraft
fast. The current world of human beings and
he failed to predict the computer revolution.
and a host of precision-engineering techniques—in other
Wiener saw the world as a set of complex
” which is what James Watt called his pathbreaking
and remarkably wrong. Written at the height of the
investigates the interplay between human beings and machines in a
Norbert Wiener’s 1950 popularization of his highly
I visited Heinz and Seth at the Aspen Center for Physics.
the late theoretical physicist Heinz Pagels of Rockefeller
he traces the history of information theory from Norbert
when new ways of thinking were everywhere: the
all individuals concerned about what is happening today in the age of AI. Deep
teamed up with McCorduck to write a book on these developments. The Fifth
who was the cutting-edge computer scientist