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e And the way to do it 1s this: a strong, self-confident Israel, willing to hold serious negotiations with the Palestinians and the group of Arab nations within an international conference, backed by the US and the Quartet — in order to achieve a two- state solution and establish...

…y learn abstract intuitive theories of biology, physics, and psychology in much the way adult scientists do, even with relatively little data. The remarkable machine-learning accomplishments of the recent AI systems, both bottom-up and top-down, take place in a narrow and well-d...

common way for electrical circuits, computer programs, brain mechanisms and other complicated systems, even cultural or spiritual movements, to behave when one or more important control parameters crosses a threshold. Doyne Farmer of the Los Alamos’s Prediction Company once said...

28 MICHAEL WOLFF That Friday morning, he came down from the residence into the Oval Office in a full-on rage so violent that, for a moment, his hair came undone. To the shock of the people with him, there stood an almost entirely bald Donald Trump. The president’s sudden change...

…s on the front page of our 2011 Outlook carefully; they were designed to show that equity markets were priced inexpensively, but were likely to stay that way, given too much stimulus in the East, and ineffective stimulus in the West **. We expect a modest second half recovery, ba...

communicate their thoughts to one another. The aim is to present a mosaic of views which will help make sense out of this rapidly emerging field. I asked the essayists to consider: (a) The Zen-like poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” by Wallace Stevens, which he ins...

…ated memories, something scientists call ‘qualia. Most writers describe consciousness as an internal dialogue with themselves and see it as a consequence of human language. That's probably because most writers are linguists. Non-linguists, perhaps even dyslexic engineers like me,...

…or some time. Meanwhile, there were a couple of other approaches to AI. One was based on understanding, at a formal level, symbolically, how the world works; and the other was based on doing statistics and probabilistic kinds of things. With regard to symbolic AI, one of the tes...

There’s yet another level, and probably one day it will have a more interesting name. With knowledge-based programming, we have a way of creating an actual representation of real things in the world, in a precise and symbolic way. Not only is it understandable by brains and commu...

… with a similar background, and sayeret experience. But I was still gaining brigade command experience. And I couldn’t help feeling the role was intended as a kind of rest- and-recovery cure because of my illness, not too different from the reason Uzi had been given the job. Stil...

and have the results analyzed by the various stakeholders—trather like elected legislatures were originally intended to do. If we have the data that go into and out of each decision, we can easily ask, Is this a fair algorithm? Is this AI doing things that we as humans believe a...

Computers, as a Tool for Creativity, Can’t Replace the Artist. Rachel Rose, a video artist who thinks about the questions posed by AI, employs computer technology in the creation of her works. Her films give the viewer an experience of materiality through the moving image. She u...

…own realm, a world quite separate from the outer sensual world surrounding him, a world in which he leaves behind all feelings circumscribed by intellect in order to embrace the inexpressible." This is not to turn our back on reason. Or to argue that modernism, with all its secu...

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