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National Pub date: February 19, 2019 Title: DEEP THINKING Subtitle: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI By: John Brockman Length: 90,000 words Headline: Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, people who have been thinking...

…ave today. They will also be informed by artificial intelligence. The combination of these two forces – instantness and thinking machines – will further deepen an already profound change. That last great shift of the Enlightenment was a violent and wonderful transformation. It pr...

…voice to our moral sense. Promiscuity enables creativity. What the sciences reveal is that the capacity for promiscuous thinking was realized by evolutionary changes in the number of newly wired up brain areas. By increasing these connections, it was possible, for the first time,...

…f name-dropping.” Buckley admired the parody and offered Brooks a job with National Review. A turning point in Brooks’s thinking came later that year in a televised debate with Milton Friedman, which, as Brooks describes it, “was essentially me making a point, and he making a two...

…f surprise could mean the difference between success and failure, indeed life and death. But all of my planning, all my thinking, tended to happen at night as well. The quiet, and the lack of distractions, helped to discipline my mind. I found that it helped to free my mind as we...

…ible and even offensive to basic common sense—I expect that. Resolve now to test the concepts as an exercise in lateral thinking. If you try it, you’ll see just how deep the rabbit hole goes, and you won’t ever go back. Take a deep breath and let me show you my world. And remembe...

…photographs on the Internet, commenting: “ I think I look pretty good in the shots, so it's kind of hard to get used to thinking of yourself in terms of being an element in a picture as opposed to just a picture of X." Despite his enthusiasm, the lack of any paid job offers dashe...

… to kiss her—yet I blocked out my foresight. Way back in college, when I tried to avoid military service, I was already thinking ahead to campaigning for president, but now I found myself ignoring the likelihood that Monica would not keep our relationship a secret. I certainly di...

THE THIRD LAW George Dyson George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the Kayak, Darwin Among the Machines, Project Orion, and Turing’s Cathedral. The history of computing can be divided into an Old Testament and a New Testament: before an...

THE THIRD LAW George Dyson George Dyson is a historian of science and technology and the author of Baidarka: the Kayak, Darwin Among the Machines, Project Orion, and Turing’s Cathedral. The history of computing can be divided into an Old Testament and a New Testament: before an...

… and it finally outstripped what MIT could support, so he gathered a group of students and started a small company. The Thinking Machines Corporation, blessed by some combination of Hillis’s charisma and the fantastic promise of the project, became a magnetic field for talent, id...

processing performed by elementary particles moving around, and there’s no law of physics that says one can’t build machines more intelligent in every way than we are, and able to seed cosmic life. This suggests that we’ve seen just the tip of the intelligence iceberg; there’s an...

… But Sid and the board acted responsibly overall. We countered with a higher price, Pennzoil accepted, and we went home thinking we had a deal. Texaco offered a higher bid two days later. Was Getty Oil already bound to Pennzoil? Its lawyers and mine said it wasn’t until the final...

…urrent trends: What if we could make or grow almost anything and engineer any level of safety and efficacy desired? Any thinking being (made of any arrangement of atoms) could have access to any technology. Probably we should be less concerned about us-versus-them and more conce...

….1> Jeffrey-given the high daily interest cost (50k+/-) on $$ borrowed which you pointed out yesterday, here's what I'm thinking, but I want to be 100% on the same page as you: 1. Close next monday on the credit line, but don't borrow any $$. (We can, of course push closing back...