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…tions. Instead, programs remain online continuously, and so they can gather data about a sequence of queries. Under the Wiener/Turing/von Neumann scheme, we might think of the communication pattern for a Web browser to be: User: Give me Web page A. Browser: Here is Web page A....

…eking some goal we give them regardless of its side effects on human welfare (the value-alignment problem adumbrated by Wiener). Here again both threats strike me as chimerical, growing from a narrow technological determinism that neglects the networks of information and control...

…lying cars, or humanoid robots. But one thing doesn’t vary: the presence of human beings. That’s certainly what Norbert Wiener imagined when he wrote about the potential of machines to improve human society by interacting with humans and helping to mediate their interactions with...

…at machines threaten a new fascism must be weighed against the vigor of the liberal ideas, institutions, and norms that Wiener championed throughout the book. The flaw in today’s dystopian prophecies is that they disregard the existence of these norms and institutions, or drastic...

…ween computation and fabrication was foreshadowed by the very pioneers whose work the edifice of computing is based on. Wiener hinted at this by linking material transportation with message transportation. John von Neumann is credited with modern computer architecture, something...

…at machines threaten a new fascism must be weighed against the vigor of the liberal ideas, institutions, and norms that Wiener championed throughout the book. The flaw in today’s dystopian prophecies is that they disregard the existence of these norms and institutions, or drastic...

…y’re grounded in a voluminous source of evidence—namely, all of the human choices ever made. This formulation sidesteps Wiener’s problem: The machine may learn more about human preferences as it goes along, of course, but it will never achieve complete certainty. A more precise...

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…rt had already been noted by the late Heinz von Foerster, one of the architects of cybernetics, who worked with Norbert Wiener from the mid-1940s and in the 1960s founded the field of second-order cybernetics, in which the observer is understood as part of the system itself and n...

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…stential threat to another even if the former lacks an appreciation for music and literature. Solutions Can we tackle Wiener’s warning head-on? Can we design AI systems whose purposes don’t conflict with ours, so that we’re sure to be happy with how they behave? On the face of...

…arketing, hegemonizing entertainment, privatizing utilities, and depersonalizing health care—are these the “whips” that Wiener feared we would learn to love? Artists can’t solve any of this. But they can remind us of the creative potential of the paths not taken—the forks in the...

…arketing, hegemonizing entertainment, privatizing utilities, and depersonalizing health care—are these the “whips” that Wiener feared we would learn to love? Artists can’t solve any of this. But they can remind us of the creative potential of the paths not taken—the forks in the...

…s 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 takeaway o...

…when such a development might occur.” e You're just a Luddite. It’s an odd definition of Luddite that includes Turing, Wiener, Minsky, Musk, and Gates, who rank among the most prominent contributors to technological progress in the 20th and 21st centuries.* Furthermore, the epit...