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…in its use in technical language. These days, AI is very popular, and people have some idea of what it means. Back when computers were being developed, in the 1940s and 1950s, the typical title of a book or a magazine article about computers was “Giant Electronic Brains.” The ide...

…but to understand and interpret these images better, we should apply the expertise of artists. Steyerl has worked with computer technology for many years, and her recent artworks have explored surveillance techniques, robots, and such computer games as in How Not to Be Seen (201...

…traordinary complexity we see in our Universe. He applies rules to elements in a two-dimensional grid programmed on the computer which form ‘cellular automaton’ that function a little like simple animals, generating all manner of complex shapes and behaviors. The inspiration for...

…o foresee crucial technological developments. Like pretty much all technologists of the 1950s, he failed to predict the computer revolution. Computers, he thought, would eventually fall in price from hundreds of thousands of (1950s) dollars to tens of thousands; neither he nor hi...

…o foresee crucial technological developments. Like pretty much all technologists of the 1950s, he failed to predict the computer revolution. Computers, he thought, would eventually fall in price from hundreds of thousands of (1950s) dollars to tens of thousands; neither he nor hi...

…. Historical convention in computing means this is generally the case. If you type a program into the command line of a computer with some words listed afterwards, the computer will usually run the program with the words as input. For example, if you type, “Print “Hello World”, m...

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…at the NSA in the post-Cold War age had encouraged its technical workers to freely discuss challenges that arose in its computer operations. “The idea was to spread knowledge and learn from the successes of others,” Morell wrote, “but it created enormous security vulner- ability,...

… one ever got hired at Yale as a professor because she was a great teacher who did no research. Here is a professor of computer science from a very highly ranked Big Ten university (he does not want his name mentioned): Every faculty member in the Department of Computer Science...

…rm only one calculation for each crank of the handle. If you wanted to calculate something complex, you had to employ a computer: a person who could do mental arithmetic enormously fast. Richard Feynman’s first job was computing for the Manhattan Project. The question was: Could...

…Hawkins, for example, writes, “Some intelligent machines will be virtual, meaning they will exist and act solely within computer networks. .. . It is always possible to turn off a computer network, even if painful.” https:/Avww.recode.net/2015/3/2/11559576/. 3 The AI100 report (...

… Agency, told me. “If he was a system administrator he might trick a threat analyst into entering his password into his computer under the pretext that he needed it to deal with an urgent hardware issue.” But Snowden was not a system administrator at the Center. Snowden therefore...

‘A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.” Alan Turing “The only real valuable thing is intuition.” Albert Einstein “Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combina...

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310 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? a limited conceptual area. Computers are not going to wake up one morning and decide to compose a breathtakingly beautiful symphony, but if we give them rules they can make a convincing version. Many computer systems have been designed to tack...