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Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology
Written by Edward Ashford Lee
Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon
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Edward Ashford Lee explores the ways that engineers use models and abstraction to build inventive artificial worlds and to give us things that we never dreamed of-for example, the ability to carry in our pockets everything humans have ever published. But he also attempts to counter the runaway enthusiasm of some technology boosters who claim everything in the physical world is a computation-that even such complex phenomena as human cognition are software operating on digital data. Lee argues that the evidence for this is weak, and the likelihood that nature has limited itself to processes that conform to today's notion of digital computation is remote.
Lee goes on to argue that artificial intelligence's goal of reproducing human cognitive functions in computers vastly underestimates the potential of computers. In his view, technology is coevolving with humans. It augments our cognitive and physical capabilities while we nurture, develop, and propagate the technology itself. Complementarity is more likely than competition.
Lee goes on to argue that artificial intelligence's goal of reproducing human cognitive functions in computers vastly underestimates the potential of computers. In his view, technology is coevolving with humans. It augments our cognitive and physical capabilities while we nurture, develop, and propagate the technology itself. Complementarity is more likely than competition.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This book is made of digressions. The digressions are so deep you will forget the original point (the author does). Or maybe there isn't one. Then it just ends out of nowhere, having presented a random selection of concepts across the science and engineering fields. What was the point of presenting the OSI model? I already have access to Wikipedia. If there was a claim or an idea the author wanted to get across I completely failed to notice in between the bafflingly frequent mentions of his dishwasher.