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“data mining promised to overcome usual ways of dividing and understanding the world.”
― How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
― How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms
“The scale shift of labour composition from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries affected also the logic of automation, that is, the scientific paradigms involved in this transformation. The relatively simple industrial division of labour and its seemingly rectilinear assembly lines could easily be compared to a simple algorithm, a rulebased procedure with an ‘if/then’ structure which has its equivalent in the logical form of deduction. Deduction, not by coincidence, is the logical form that via Leibniz, Babbage, Shannon, and Turing innervated into electromechanical computation and eventually symbolic AI. Deductive logic is useful for modelling simple processes, but not systems with a multitude of autonomous agents, such as society, the market, or the brain.”
― The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
― The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
“Teams are working on products that will generate new DNA sequences using only natural language instructions. Transformer models are learning the language of biology and chemistry, again discovering relationships and significance in long, complex sequences illegible to the human mind.”
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
“There will be a day in the future when current AI will be considered an archaism, one technical fossil to study among others.”
― The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
― The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
“For Sebald, speaking in 1997, the difference between his own situation as a writer and Dickensian (or Austenian) exemplarity is primarily historical: If you refer to Jane Austen, you refer to a world where there were set standards of propriety which were accepted by everyone. Given that you have a world where the rules are clear and where one knows where trespassing begins, then I think it is legitimate, within that kind of context, to be a narrator who knows what the rules are and who knows the answers to certain questions. But I think these certainties have been taken from us by the course of history, and that we do have to acknowledge our own sense of ignorance and of insufficiency in these matters and therefore to try and write accordingly.”
― Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age
― Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age
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