Kenneth Cukier
@kncukier
Deputy executive editor @TheEconomist. Coauthor "Framers" & NYT bestseller "Big Data". Board director @ChathamHouse & Fellow @OxfordSBS. Always curious.
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http://www.cukier.com 10-02-2011 12:38:09
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Human brains do something much more significant that AI ever could: conjure up data and mental models that didn't already exists, argues Kenneth Cukier.
Joanna J Bryson, Dr Peter Sjรถstedt-Hughes and Kenneth Cukier debate whether the brain is really a computer. iai.tv/video/models-mโฆ
Looking forward to discussing these themes with some v thoughtful people, notably the amazing Diane Coyle.
Maybe some lessons from Borges relevant to AI & the transformation of everything narrative - Gary Marcus Isaac Kohane nxthompson Kenneth Cukier
Japanโs New Appetite for Risk Lures Venture Investors to Tokyo
โIf we had started Sakana AI in the Bay Area, it would have been a strategic blunder, because we would have looked more like everyone else. It would have been very hard to differentiate.โ
theinformation.com/articles/japanโฆ
Thank you for the kind words Ananyo Bhattacharya! Your biography of Von Neumann was -- funny enough -- one of the books I thought about writing post-Shannon. Delighted, though, that you beat me to the punch!
Massive shoutout to our ace art director Dario Verrengia, so talented and so zen (except when he texted about an early draft of cover art: โis this A BIT pigeon?โ ๐)
Amazing that a chip bricked in 46-yr-old Voyager I, preventing it from sending data, and NASA figured out how to split up and reallocate its functions to other hardware, sending code 15 billion miles away (45 hours round trip!)--and Voyager's back online. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/0โฆ