It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

A.C.D.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.

P. F.

10 years of Fake Avatar – Design Blog, 2014 – 2024.

Artists in this post: Evgeny Zubkov, Elen Freim, MXD Project, Andrey Kochergin, Viktor Mogilat.

This ability of a single box to carry out any process that you can imagine is called universality, a concept first introduced by Alan Turing in 1936.31 Universality means that we do not need separate machines for arithmetic, machine translation, chess, speech understanding, or animation: one machine does it all.

S.R.

When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.

Bender

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On May 3, 1997, a chess match began between Deep Blue, a chess computer built by IBM, and Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion and possibly the best human player in history. Newsweek billed the match as “The Brain’s Last Stand.” On May 11, with the match tied at 2½–2½, Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in the final game.
The media went berserk. The market capitalization of IBM increased by $18 billion overnight.
AI had, by all accounts, achieved a massive breakthrough.

S.R.

Intelligent machines with this capability would be able to look further into the future than humans can. They would also be able to take into account far more information. These two capabilities combined lead inevitably to better real-world decisions.
In any kind of conflict situation between humans and machines, we would quickly find, like Garry Kasparov and Lee Sedol, that our every move has been anticipated and blocked. We would lose the game before it even started.

S.R.