Where Claude Shannon appears
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…omas Hobbes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The New Testament prophets included Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, and Norbert Wiener. They delivered the machines. Alan Turing wondered what it would take for machines to become in...
…gs seem closer to the 19th century than the 21st. In particular, although Wiener made reference throughout to Claude Shannon’s then-new work on information theory, he seems not to have fully embraced Shannon’s notion of information as consi...
“INFORMATION” FOR WIENER, FOR SHANNON, AND FOR US David Kaiser David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of Physics at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of H...
physical, material, emotionally stimulating, and signaling world. Cybernetics now seems to have collapsed into an all-pervasive discourse of AI that was far from preordained. “Cybernetics,” as a word, claimed postwar newness for concepts th...
…he heart of how AI has progressed. This history matters because of the echoes of it that persist to this day. Claude Shannon makes a cameo appearance in the book, in the context of his thoughts about the prospects for a chess-playing comput...
…gs seem closer to the 19th century than the 21st. In particular, although Wiener made reference throughout to Claude Shannon’s then-new work on information theory, he seems not to have fully embraced Shannon’s notion of information as consi...
et’s make that destiny a truly inspiring one! 20 See Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (New York: Henry Holt, 2014). 68 Jaan Tallinn grew up in Estonia, becoming one of its few computer game developers, when that...
ure-of-ai/. 32 whereas the iron-eating bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans is thrilled. Who’s to say the bacterium is wrong? The fact that a machine has been given a fixed objective by humans doesn’t mean that it will automatically recogniz...
and Claude Shannon conjectured that “every aspect of learning or any other
…man “I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.” Claude Shannon “The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.” Edgar Dijks...
…s and summed over all cells of the partition yields a statistical measure that is close to the informational entropy of Claude Shannon as described above. It is called the metric entropy ( Hy = -X(p; In(pi)), where H means entropy and gj; i…
