After the Internet
Alien Intelligence
by James Martin · first published 2000
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…or hopeful or good, anywhere other than code? As a reading machine it is impressive but it's judgement is not alien, it's just not good. IMO. Does the title leap out anlt anyone else? James Martin's After the Internet: Alien Intelligence (2001) was an incredibly fun read, about expert systems and AI being inscrutable weird new varieties of intelligence, that familiarity would recognize one moment and be freaked out…
on “An Alien Mind” ↗…just about open access, open tools. A republic can leave much in the hands of it's representatives, but there still has to be some underlying conversancy that's possible. Reading it back in the day, After the Internet: Alien Intelligence (James Martin, 2000) was an interesting book about expert systems that increasingly because unintelligible, became alien to humanity as a whole & it's specific makers. I increasingly…
on “The radical new project to democratize AI” ↗I got a good accidental brush with Moravec's Paradox in James Martin's After the Internet: Alien Intelligence (2001), which talked about how coming systems would be unrecognizable bizarre expert systems, with seemingly super powered capabilities. That stuck with me so much, for such a long…
on “Moravec's Paradox” ↗