Year: 2022

DEEP MIND. "Google’s New Computer With Human-Like Learning Abilities Will Program Itself. The new hybrid device might not need humans at all. Neural networks -- which will enable the computer to invent programs for situations that it has not seen before -- will make up half of the computer's architecture. Experts at the firm hope this will equip the machine with the means to create like a human." https://lnkd.in/d2gu_tW View in LinkedIn

THE TEST. “Humans have already demonstrated the ability to create some seriously secure encryption algorithms, but that wasn’t enough for the Google Brain team. So, instead of relying on those soft, mushy human brains, Google engineers decided to let a trio of AI minds put their own encryption skills to the test.” https://lnkd.in/dGFg6bm View in LinkedIn

RECURSIVE SELF-IMPROVEMENT. "The Pentagon is particularly interested in this game. Through DARPA, its hoping to develop a computer that can teach itself. Ultimately, it wants to create machines that are able to perform a number of complex tasks, like unsupervised learning, vision, planning, and statistical model selection." https://lnkd.in/dp3ZKye View in LinkedIn

"THE INTERNET. It’s a terrific resource, one of the greatest human inventions in history. It’s a global network, a decentralized brain like no other ever created. It’s got memory in cloud storage, reasoning (of a sort) in cloud-based processing power, and lightning fast synapses thanks to fiber-optic bundles that criss-cross the globe." https://lnkd.in/da9p2nE View in LinkedIn

INTERACTIVE TEXTS. "The sensual body finds itself living amidst an expansive set of technologies. In this ever-evolving computational world we encounter texts of varying forms and functionalities – visual, sonic, and code-related. Text may also take physical and/or environmental form." https://lnkd.in/dCVHq5S View in LinkedIn

VIRTUAL TEXTS. "The continuum that bridges distributed bodies with the recombinant communicative and associative functionality of technology is charged with the potential of extending humankind’s ability to experience, generate, operate on, store, edit, and disseminate meaningful patterns of experience." (What a sentence!) https://lnkd.in/dCVHq5S View in LinkedIn

OOPS. "If machines become self-aware and start writing their own code, they could theoretically take control of the brain. Worse, the Internet itself could “wake up” and start controlling, well, just about everything." https://lnkd.in/da9p2nE View in LinkedIn

CODE DATABASE. "If computers can rewrite code, however, the game potentially changes. Suppose, for instance, that someone created a database that indexed all known lines of code in world and then could combine them in a specified way to perform a desired function without the input of a human at all." https://lnkd.in/da9p2nE View in LinkedIn

"IF IFS and ands were pots and pans, the world would be a kitchen." View in LinkedIn

INNOCENT QUESTION. “Why would you ever want to write a program that changes its code while it’s running? That’s a horrible idea!” https://lnkd.in/dWhsGg7 View in LinkedIn