Results for “Norbert Wiener”

…lifetimes to solve on classical computers. In the essay that follows, he traces the history of information theory from Norbert Wiener ’s prophetic insights to the predictions of a technological “singularity” that some would have us believe will supplant the human species. His ta...

…out our Universe to know that it has the potential to wake up much more fully than it has thus far. AI pioneers such as Norbert Wiener have taught us that a further awakening of our Universe’s ability to process and experience information need not require eons of additional evolu...

…im to control superintelligent machines? If not, can we ensure that they understand, adopt, and retain human values? As Norbert Wiener put it in Zhe Human Use of Human Beings: Woe to us if we let [the machine] decide our conduct, unless we have previously examined the laws of it...

…bit, the AI is likely to make a horrible mistake. It has absolutely no sense of context. In some ways, it’s as far from Norbert Wiener’s original notion of cybernetics as you can get, because it isn’t contextualized; it’s a little idiot savant. But imagine that you took away tho...

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...

there is a constant structure with some activity going on inside it. When von Neumann’s abstract machine reproduced, it made a copy of itself in another region of the plane. Within the “machine” was a horizontal line of squares which acted as a finite linear tape, using a subset...

while mostly neglecting Wiener’s claims about the science

Wiener gave scientific teeth to the idea that in the workings of history

many of them (like Wiener) from the worlds of science and technology

Wiener published “Some Moral and Technical

the book is in many ways extraordinarily prescient. Wiener

whereas (as Wiener might have expected) information

as Wiener recognized. When attractive opportunities abound

he applauds Wiener’s belief in the strength of ideas vis-a-vis

whether or not it was apparent to Wiener