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those trade-offs: you give up a little versatility, a little humanity, and get a crowd
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016266.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…fully on its conversational experiences. Why would we want to create a thinking, creative agent out of Watson? Perhaps Turing’s brilliant idea of an operational test has lured us into a trap: the quest to create at least the illusion of a real person behind the screen, bridging...

Reid, Constance. Julia: A Life in Mathematics. Washington, DC: The Mathematical
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016081.txt Nov 11, 2002 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…/www. joelonsoftware.com. Tegmark, Max. “The Mathematical Universe.’ Foundations of Physics 38, no. 2 (2008): 101-50. Turing, Alan M. “Can a Machine Think” The World of Mathematics 4 (1956): 2099-2123. Turing, Alan Mathison. “On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the E...

academic panel at MIT missed the point: “(That is why it is called the Connection
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018366.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

academic panel at MIT missed the point: “(That is why it is called the Connection Machine.)”189 Hillis’s ambition to build this device boiled in him while he was at MIT, and it finally outstripped what MIT could support, so he gathered a group of students and started a small com...

Explaining our taste for excessive harm
document TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_012747.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…aid neighboring villages to take their women. And like chimpanzees, humans cooperate to monitor their borders, often capturing and killing intruders ⎯⎯ think Palestine and Israel. But human cooperation is distinctive in two ways: we frequently cooperate with Hauser Chapter 1. Nat...

Lego Turing Machine
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015910.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Lego Turing Machine “Machines take me by surprise with great frequency. Alan Turing HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015910

But Wiener failed to foresee crucial technological developments. Like pretty
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016822.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…r includes quirks and habits of the human pilot, thus a mechanized device can predict the behavior of humans. Like Alan Turing, whose Turing Test suggested that computing machines could give responses to questions which were indistinguishable from human responses, Wiener was fasc...

But Wiener failed to foresee crucial technological developments. Like pretty
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016239.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…r includes quirks and habits of the human pilot, thus a mechanized device can predict the behavior of humans. Like Alan Turing, whose Turing Test suggested that computing machines could give responses to questions which were indistinguishable from human responses, Wiener was fasc...

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016404.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but through this bypath of neural networks. But simple neural networks didn’t do much. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the la...

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016987.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

von Neumann and others on computers came directly not from Turing Machines but through this bypath of neural networks. But simple neural networks didn’t do much. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the la...

Free Will Universe
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016041.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…determined. He argues there is no place in the laws of nature for free will to arise. Both sides of the argument agree Turing prohibits a general- purpose machine from solving all mathematical problems, but that seems to be the extent of agreement. The determinists solve the Wil...

agent that perceives, and acts in order to maximize, its expected utility. Subfields such as
document IMAGES-003-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016250.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…s dead. According to Omohundro’s argument, a superintelligent machine that has an off-switch—which some, including Alan Turing himself, in a 1951 talk on BBC Radio 3, have seen as our potential salvation—will take steps to disable the switch in some way.! Thus we may face the pro...

And who are the “us”? Who should deem “such decisions . . . acceptable”? Even
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016868.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

And who are the “us”? Who should deem “such decisions . . . acceptable”? Even if future powers decide to help humans survive and flourish, how will we find meaning and purpose in our lives if we aren’t needed for anything? The debate about the societal impact of AI has changed d...