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kind of instrument which will increase the power of the mind much more than optical lenses strengthen the eyes and which will be as far superior to microscopes or telescopes as reason is superior to sight.”
kind of instrument which will increase the power of the mind much more than optical lenses strengthen the eyes and which will be as far superior to microscopes or telescopes as reason is superior to sight.” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1679)
Bernoulli (Universitdt Basel, 1684) who advised: Johann Bernoulli (Universitdt Basel, 1694) who advised: Leonhard Euler (Universitat Basel, 1726) who advised: Joseph Louis Lagrange who advised: Simeon Denis Poisson who advised: Michel Chasles (Ecole Polytechnique, 1814) who advised: H. A. (Hubert Anson) Newton (Yale, 1850) who advised: E. H. Moore (Yale, 1885) who advised: Oswald Veblen (U. of Chicago, 1903) who advised: Philip Franklin (Princeton 1921) who advised: Alan Perlis (MIT Math PhD 1950) who advised: Jerry Feldman (CMU Math 1966) who advised: Jim Horning (Stanford CS PhD 1969) who advised: John Guttag (U. of Toronto CS PhD 1975) who advised: David Evans (MIT CS PhD 2000) my academic great- great-great-great- great-great-great- great-great-great- great-great-great- great-great- grandparent!
kind of instrument which will increase the power of the mind much more than optical lenses strengthen the eyes and which will be as far superior to microscopes or telescopes as reason is superior to sight.” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1679) Normal computing amplifies (quadrillions of times faster) and aggregates (enables millions of humans to work together) human cognitive abilities; AI goes beyond what humans can do.
artificial intelligence. After their disappointments in trying to reverse- engineer the brain, computer scientists narrowed their sights. Abandoning their pursuit of human-like intelligence, they began to concentrate on accomplishing sophisticated, but limited, analytical tasks by capitalizing on the inhuman speed of the modern computer’s calculations. This less ambitious but more pragmatic approach has paid off in areas ranging from medical diagnosis to self-driving cars. Computers are replicating the results of human thought without replicating thought itself. Nicolas Carr, A Brutal Intelligence: AI, Chess, and the Human Mind, 2017
programmers don’t understand well enough to program explicitly. 23 If it is explainable, its not AI! Note: you will definitely have opportunities to argue for an alternative definition.
unenjoyable, etc. for humans Reduce the costs of design, production, assembly, distribution for all products to nearly 0 Mistake-free, continually-improving, low-cost medical care for all Optimal decision-making systems with complete knowledge and no human cognitive biases
harm (without creators objecting) Malicious developers Using AI to do harm 32 Malice is (often) in the eye of the beholder (e.g., mass surveillance, pop-up ads, etc.)
distributed yet.” (William Gibson, 1990s) Expanding victims: Attacks that are only cost-effective for high-value, easy-compromise targets, become cost-effective against everyone Expanding adversaries: Attacks only available to nation-state level adversaries, become accessible to everyone
out of control AI inadvertently causes harm Malicious operators Build AI to do harm 39 Main goal of this seminar is to better understand these potential harms, and possible ways to mitigate them.
up when you were seven Engineer or an Astronomer A chef a biomedical engineer that builds prosthetics Lawyer a dolphin trainer I don't think I had any idea. I honestly can't remember but I did a project in second grade on Amelia Earhart so it might've been a pilot. a spy or journalist I wanted to be a spy/ninja. I thought I wanted to be a pharmacist, which was mostly because even at age 7 I liked the medical field, but preferred the hours of a pharmacist over those of a physician. When I was 7 years old I deeply wanted to be a doctor. Mostly because I hated going to the doctor and thought I could do a better job. This dream quickly died away when I realized how squeamish I am around blood. An astronaut, and then an aeronautical engineer after I heard about the NASA height restrictions A teacher A singer
up” now entrepreneurial: “social entrepreneur using technology”, “run purpose-driven tech company”, “my own boss” creator: create films or score films/video games; video content creator, digital storyteller policy: lawyer for an advocacy group, “work in the technology sector to shape a better future”, “oversee projects that deal with technological advances” science: aviation medicine researcher (neuropsychological issues in military personnel), paleontologist “commercial airline pilot or work in the mental health field”, “something cybersecurity related”, “human-computer interaction” personal: “want to be a really good dad (eventually)”, “when I grow up, I want to be learning”
1 50-100 years ago, 1 20-50 years ago, 2 5-20 years ago, 3 Present day, 3 5-20 years from now, 2 50-100 years from now, 2 Matched to maximize group disparity
meant to make life easier, added up to a millstone around the necks of these farmers. Why did people make such a fateful miscalculation? For the same reason that people throughout history have miscalculated. People were unable to fathom the full consequences of their decisions.
a man could, as a rule, produce by hard work little more than was required for the subsistence of himself and his family, although his wife worked at least as hard and his children added their labor as soon as they were old enough to do so. The small surplus above bare necessaries was not left to those who produced it, but was appropriated by priests and warriors.” Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) In Praise of Idleness 1932
work more than four hours a day, every person possessed of scientific curiosity will be able to indulge it, and every painter will be able to paint without starving, ..., teachers will not be exasperatedly struggling to teach by routine methods things which they learnt in their youth, which may, in the interval, have been proved untrue..” Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) In Praise of Idleness 1932
of ease and security for all; we have chosen instead to have overwork for some and starvation for others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines. In this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.” Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) In Praise of Idleness 1932
- You’ll be arriving having read something to discuss - You’ll have prepared responses to some questions about the readings - What we do will largely be guided by students - Make suggestions! I am open to (almost) anything - If you don’t like the assigned reading, propose an alternative - Not everyone needs to do the same thing 56
Don’t write for length: write to communicate clearly, convincingly, and concisely Papers should be substantial: - tackle a challenging topic - original and interesting ideas - enough substance that it wouldn’t fit into a short paper
English essay, blog post, scripted video, Jupyter notebook to communicate an original message some important, new idea using evidence and argument facts, sources, logic to a target audience. not just me, not just your classmates, hopefully wider posted publicly and permanently! 60
- Reactions to readings Fact check at least one claim Responses (can be based on provided questions) - Contributions to Class Forum Post links to articles with comments Comment on things other post 61
a half pounds—a little less than the average weight of a Homo sapiens brain. This is unusual for something that is neither a reference work nor a coffee-table book, and that runs to fewer than five hundred pages. The reason for such disproportionate heft is the quality of the paper: the pages are thick like those of a book of prints, crisp white and replete with color illustrations.” John Sexton, A Reductionist History of Humankind
a whole, one has often had to point out how surprisingly little he seems to have read on quite a number of essential topics. It would be fair to say that whenever his facts are broadly correct they are not new, and whenever he tries to strike out on his own he often gets things wrong, sometimes seriously. So we should not judge Sapiens as a serious contribution to knowledge but as 'infotainment', a publishing event to titillate its readers by a wild intellectual ride across the landscape of history, dotted with sensational displays of speculation, and ending with blood-curdling predictions about human destiny. By these criteria it is a most successful book.” C. R. Hallpike's review
and undeserving of the wide acclaim and attention it has been receiving. But it is worth considering the book’s blind spots and flaws—the better to understand the weaknesses of the genre and the intellectual temptations of our age.” John Sexton, A Reductionist History of Humankind
Sapiens, Chapter 1-8 Why Technology Favors Tyranny Reactions: Fact check at least one claim Responses (questions provided) Class Forum Post links to article with comment Comment on things other post 69
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