Let the Machines In
The author reflects on the irony of using statistical prediction machines to shape the future, drawing connections between computation and human intelligence. It explores the historical aspiration to mechanize thought and the current state of AI development.
“From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I have supposed, and in my better moments think so still, that it would be possible in this manner to participate in the existence of everyone; such sympathy would be one of the least revocable kinds of immortality.” Marguerite Yourcenar, Memories of Hadrian
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