Comment by xdavidliu
17 hours ago
this comment reminds me of that Feynman quote about others thinking scientific knowledge removes the beauty from a flower. of course Feynman disagreed
17 hours ago
this comment reminds me of that Feynman quote about others thinking scientific knowledge removes the beauty from a flower. of course Feynman disagreed
Feynman isn't a god and he didn't conceive of AI.
Von Neumann pretty much was a god, and even as early as 1945, he was explicitly assuming that neural models were how things in the computing business would eventually shake out.
The rest of us are just a little slow to catch up, is all.
Even if he did predict what would happen, it doesn't mean it's a good thing. von Neumann was a great prodigy but he was also a freak in a way, being able to enjoy the peak of very advanced technical things, which is not necessarily a good thing for the rest of us.