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Autumn had arrived, that lovely, cool time of year when everything turns color and dies.
“A precondition for building a smarter brain is to first understand how the ones we have are cognitive”
― The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
― The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
“This fact alone casts serious doubt on any expectation of a smooth progression from today’s AI to tomorrow’s human-level AI. People who assume that extensions of modern machine learning methods like deep learning will somehow “train up,” or learn to be intelligent like humans”
― The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
― The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do
“Then as now”
― Fire & Blood
― Fire & Blood
“Oak and iron, guard me well, or else I'm dead, and doomed to hell.”
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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