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partly inspired by conversations with Wiener

Norbert Wiener looked at the world through the

Wiener’s lens brings out some interesting aspects of the

Wiener borrowed Shannon’s fresh ideas about

Wiener has been proved right. His vision of

Wiener had proposed that researchers study the

and [when] Wiener talks about the threat of automation he misses the

and depersonalizing health care—are these the “whips” that Wiener

…he form of a goal, a utility function, or a reward function (as in reinforcement learning)—1s specified exogenously. In Wiener’s words, this is “the purpose put into the machine.” Indeed, it has been one of the tenets of the field that AI systems should be general-purpose—i.e., c...

… that pursue their own interests—interests that might not align with those of any particular human working for them. As Wiener observed in Zhe Human Use of Human Beings: “When human atoms are knit into an organization in which they are used, not in their full right as responsible...

…tion that computer science was one the worst things to happen to computers, or science. His overall contention was that Wiener missed the implications of the digital revolution that was happening around him—although some would say this charge can’t be leveled at someone on the gr...

…tion that computer science was one the worst things to happen to computers, or science. His overall contention was that Wiener missed the implications of the digital revolution that was happening around him—although some would say this charge can’t be leveled at someone on the gr...

… in a certain species of primate, not an inevitable feature of intelligent systems.” In the present essay, he applauds Wiener’s belief in the strength of ideas vis-a-vis the encroachment of technology. As Wiener so aptly put it, “The machine’s danger to society is not from the m...

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...

…-flips per second. Human brains are intricately constructed, the process of millions of years of natural selection. In Wiener’s time, our understanding of the architecture of the brain was rudimentary and simplistic. Since then, increasingly sensitive instrumentation and imaging...