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When you’re a child the world forbears you, allows you your flights of imagination, your feelings of specialness. But sooner or later the privileges are withdrawn, and all you’re left with is a stunned bitterness at the realisation that you’re just the same as everybody else.
Only Forward
Michael Marshall Smith
In his 1958 monograph, The Computer and The Brain, von Neumann speculates that, some important differences aside, the machine he built with digital circuits appeared to work in a similar way to the neural circuits of the brain. What were his insights about the workings of neurons based on? Little more than what could be inferred from the pioneering work of Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
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AlphaZero, a program developed by Google’s DeepMind, plays chess better than any human player, but during its training it played forty-four million games, far more than any human can play in a lifetime. For it to master a new game, it will have to undergo a similarly enormous amount of training. By Chollet’s definition, programs like AlphaZero are highly skilled, but they aren’t particularly intelligent, because they aren’t efficient at gaining new skills.
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art | the New Yorker
Ted Chiang
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