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AI before AI: The legacy of Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics (3/3)

British mathematician Norbert Wiener, who founded the field of cybernetics in the 1940s, may deserve a place alongside artificial intelligence founders Alan Turing and John von Neumann. FRANCE 24 revisits this overlooked visionary who was also one of the first to warn against the automation of society.

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Humans May Be 'Autonomous Probes' Created by Aliens, Avi Loeb Claims

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has floated the provocative idea that humans might themselves be alien‑made 'autonomous probes,' built through advanced synthetic biology rather than evolving entirely on Earth.

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Vibrating crotches, anal beads and suspicious minds: the long, strange history of chess cheats

The journey from the Von Neumann to the Niemann affair has much to teach us about the changed landscape of the sport

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Is AI really ‘intelligent’? This philosopher says yes

Anyone who engages in serious dialogue with a Large Language Model (LLM) may get the impression they are interacting with an intelligence. But many experts in the field argue the impression is just that. In philosopher Daniel Dennett’s words, such systems display “competence without comprehension”.

The Conversation

‘People say my book gave them a panic attack’: When We Cease to Understand the World author Benjamín Labatut

His page-turning books about quantum physics and game theory have given the Chilean writer a cult following – and won him famous fans from Stephen Fry to Björk and Barack Obama

The Guardian - UK

Nuclear bombs, artificial intelligence and the madness of reason – in The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut examines the troubling dawn of the digital age

A little over 100 years ago, the great German sociologist Max Weber warned that the growth of modern science would result in the “disenchantment” of the world.

The Conversation

The real question about AI: Will it survive us humans?

Like all technology, we humans created AI and we can control it. And as AI-enabled androids are produced and learn more about us, they’ll learn to fear us and our nuked-up, unstable world, a Chicago-area writer concludes.

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The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut review – genius and madness in the shadow of the atomic bomb

The Chilean author’s assured fictionalised portrait of the visionary Hungarian scientist who contributed to the Manhattan Project and laid the foundations of modern computing is darkly intelligent and feverishly propulsive

The Guardian - UK

The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut review – a journey to the far edge of knowledge

From the atom bomb to AI, this semi-fictional oral history explores science, faith and madness through the ideas of one extraordinary physicist

The Guardian - UK

From Oppenheimer to Milton Friedman: how the Cold War battle of economic ideas shaped our world

Is Oppenheimer a movie for our time, reminding us of the tensions, dangers and conflicts of the old Cold War while a new one threatens to break out?

The Conversation

One futuristic alien technology could confirm the existence of advanced life in space

Humanity has barely scratched the surface when it comes to cosmic exploration, including our backyard. Self-replicating robots could reveal more about humanity's closest neighbors.

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