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“FINDING CORRELATIONS in the user data was just Mesohippus—a great breakthrough that was already obsolete.”
― Richard Powers, Playground

“Hope and truth could not be reconciled. The things that had filled her with awe were passing away. There was no other honest ending. Blocked, she reread what she had written so many times it made her ill.”
― Richard Powers, Playground

“And these deep players learned the most extraordinary things. They started to drive cars. Without being told a single thing about cats except whether a given picture showed one, they learned how to recognize any cat from any angle under any conditions. They figured out how to translate text from one language to another with uncanny fluency, without being taught a single rule of grammar or usage. They learned these things the way a child would, by weighing the evidence and adjusting the strengths of the connections in their networks of neurons until their brains began to generalize solutions. I SET DEEP LEARNING loose on Playground’s trove of user data. Every sentence a person wrote, every picture a person uploaded, every post a person voted for taught the deep learners”
― Richard Powers, Playground

“And these deep players learned the most extraordinary things. They started to drive cars. Without being told a single thing about cats except whether a given picture showed one, they learned how to recognize any cat from any angle under any conditions. They figured out how to translate text from one language to another with uncanny fluency, without being taught a single rule of grammar or usage. They learned these things the way a child would, by weighing the evidence and adjusting the strengths of the connections in their networks of neurons until their brains began to generalize solutions.”
― Richard Powers, Playground