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... See more"As Marshall McLuhan once observed, "Every extension is also an amputation." The wheel extends the foot, and in doing so, removes the necessity of walking. The book extends memory, and in doing so, weakens the habit of remembering. With AI, what is extended is the head — the seat of thought, language, judgment,
The big question, as we evolve into the future of the hyperintelligent machine, is not a question of control but one of ethics.
Mo Gawdat • Scary Smart: Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
Bush, FDR’s former war advisor, wrote of a hypothetical computer or “Memex” machine he intended as an extension of human memory.
Douglas Rushkoff • Life Inc.
The human brain is quite remarkable; it can store perhaps three terabytes of information.41 And yet that is only about one one-millionth of the information that IBM says is now produced in the world each day. So we have to be terribly selective about the information we choose to remember.
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
As mentioned in the last chapter, our brains store much more information than our genes: in the ballpark of 10 gigabytes electrically (specifying which of your 100 billion neurons are firing at any one time) and 100 terabytes chemically/biologically (specifying how strongly different neurons are linked by synapses).
Max Tegmark • Life 3.0
His answer was the memex, a high-tech desk. “A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory,” he wrote. Seated at their memex, users could peruse thousands of
... See moreClive Thompson • Smarter Than You Think
🎧 How to Predict the Future Like Kevin Kelly
every.toAnd this is crucial to our talk here, because these abilities – to link, annotate, change,... See more
mikecaulfield • The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
The mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing later called this mistake ‘Lady Lovelace’s objection’. It was not computational universality that Lovelace failed to appreciate, but the universality of the laws of physics. Science at the time had almost no knowledge of the physics of the brain. Also, Darwin’s theory of evolution had not yet been
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