Tag: artificial intelligence
Why We Don’t Evolve Software: A Computer Scientist Considers Darwinian Theory
Software engineers are trained in design principles, and also have real experience of how complex functional systems appear and change constructively.
Unbelievable: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and How to Tell the Difference
My box of books just arrived. Now you know what all of my family and best local friends are getting for Christmas this year.
Great Minds: Marks, Medved on Human Exceptionalism’s Two Frontiers
There are fundamental, unbridgeable chasms on either side, animal and machine. The capacity for creativity, for one thing, stands permanently outside the reach of algorithms.
Great Minds: Robert Marks, Michael Medved on the Limits of Computation
There’s no danger of computers ruling us, but there is a peril in employing them to greatly magnify the impact of our own errors.
Denton, Gilder: The Biology of Surprise
Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism is just a blunt recipe, an algorithm, and it can only select what is immediately functional.