John Brockman books
Short essay collections culled from the Edge Foundation website.
The Last Unknowns
Tigard 500 LAS 2019
- p282 Tweet-length one-sentence unanswered questions, 66 by folks I've read or heard about. Quite a few are ill-posed, assuming the future will be an embellishment of the past. My favorite question is " i=we? " by artist Koo Jeong-A .
Possible Minds: twenty-five ways of looking at AI
Multco 006.3 .P856 2019
p005 Norbert Wiener The Human Use of Human Beings
p046 Daniel Dennett Intuition Pumps and other Tools for Thinking (2013) also Beaverton Library 121.6 DEN
- p196 Pentland essay "random bunch of switches" strength feedback about what works and what doesn't, how current AI works
- p276 Turing test presumed text input/output, Wolfram|Alpha is graphical and conversational