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…, Connecticut) that preceded the crafting of this book, he commented on the change in how “information” is viewed since Wiener’s time: the military-industrial, Cold War era. Back then, Wiener compared information, metaphorically, to entropy, in that it could not be conserved—i.e....

…ttfried 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 intelligent. John von Neumann wondered what it would take f...

learning system can be trained to follow strategies that produce those outcomes. Wiener hinted at this idea in the 1950s, but the intervening decades have developed it into a fine art. Modern machine-learning systems can find extremely effective strategies for playing computer ga...

learning system can be trained to follow strategies that produce those outcomes. Wiener hinted at this idea in the 1950s, but the intervening decades have developed it into a fine art. Modern machine-learning systems can find extremely effective strategies for playing computer ga...

…ave been. Today’s dominant technologies were developed in the world of Turing and von Neumann, rather than the world of Wiener. In the first industrial revolution, energy from a steam engine or a water wheel was used by human workers to replace their own energy. Instead of being...

…ave been. Today’s dominant technologies were developed in the world of Turing and von Neumann, rather than the world of Wiener. In the first industrial revolution, energy from a steam engine or a water wheel was used by human workers to replace their own energy. Instead of being...

…o be impossible turn out to be easy. You don’t know until you try. In the 1950s, partly inspired by conversations with Wiener, John von Neumann introduced the notion of the “technological singularity.” Technologies tend to improve exponentially, doubling in power or sensitivity...

… up dominating my subsequent work. The First Message: the Soviet Occupation In The Human Use of Human Beings, Norbert Wiener looked at the world through the lens of communication. He saw a universe that was marching to the tune of the second law of thermodynamics toward its ine...

…o be impossible turn out to be easy. You don’t know until you try. In the 1950s, partly inspired by conversations with Wiener, John von Neumann introduced the notion of the “technological singularity.” Technologies tend to improve exponentially, doubling in power or sensitivity...

…ttfried 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 intelligent. John von Neumann wondered what it would take f...

reasoning without having to hire a programmer for each problem. Wiener recognized the role of feedback in machine learning, but he missed the key role of representation. It’s not possible to store all possible images in a self-driving car, or all possible sounds in a conversation...

… getting his PhD, Turing almost stayed on as von Neumann’s postdoc. Without Turing and von Neumann, the cybernetics of Wiener might have remained a dominant mode of thought and driver of technology for much longer than its brief moment of supremacy. In this imaginary version of...

…ta brings us to interesting times.” At our group meeting in Washington, Connecticut, he confessed that reading Norbert Wiener on the concept of feedback “felt like reading my own thoughts.” “After Wiener, people discovered or focused on the fact that there are genuinely chaotic...

by the tools and metaphors they use in their work. Norbert Wiener

while mostly neglecting Wiener’s claims about the science