Luke Dormehl > Quotes

“the theory behind the panopticon was that prisoners would behave as if they were being watched at all times — with the mere presence of the watchtower being as effective as iron bars in regulating behaviour and ensuring that everyone acted the same way. (A similar idea is behind today’s open-plan offices.)”
― Luke Dormehl, The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems … and Create More

“Learning is a profoundly important part of what makes us human. It is also something Good Old-Fashioned AI struggled with. The”
― Luke Dormehl, Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

“It is the gulf between the idea of the autonomous individual, and the algorithmic tendency to view the individual as one categorisable node in an aggregate mass that can result in The Formula’s equivalent of a crisis of self.”
― Luke Dormehl, The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems … and Create More

“In essence, this means neural networks can think using analogies, which is something that could never be said for classic AI.”
― Luke Dormehl, Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

“Every year we save more bytes of data about ourselves than we have base pairs of DNA. Each time we enter cyberspace we”
― Luke Dormehl, Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

“Currently, education is stuck in the same Industrial Revolution paradigm it has been in for more than 100 years. In”
― Luke Dormehl, Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

“the theory behind the panopticon was that prisoners would behave as if they were being watched at all times”
― Luke Dormehl, The Formula: How Algorithms Solve all our Problems … and Create More

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.”
― Luke Dormehl, Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future