1948
Selekoa’s 7 records dated 1948, in date order, grouped by topic.
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Ideas & lineages 7 records
Dated to 1948 only
· event · dated to the year
“Intelligent Machinery” (1948) credits A. M. Turing as its author. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
“Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine” (1948) credits Norbert Wiener as its author. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
Wiener’s Cybernetics (1948, read in the 2019 reissue) states that those who have contributed to the new science do not have the choice of suppressing its technical developments, and that the most “any of us” can do by suppression is to put the subject into the hands of its most irresponsible and most venal engineers. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
Wiener’s Cybernetics (1948, read in the 2019 reissue) states that the modern industrial revolution is bound to devalue the human brain, at least in its simpler and more routine decisions, and that, taking that revolution as accomplished, the average human being of mediocre attainments or less has nothing to sell that it is worth anyone’s money to buy. Evidence ↗· event · dated to the year
Turing’s National Physical Laboratory report ‘Intelligent Machinery’ (1948) lists, among reasons for assuming that machinery cannot show intelligent behaviour, the view that any intelligence a machine shows is nothing but a reflection of its creator’s, and answers that this view is like giving a teacher the credit for a pupil’s discoveries. Evidence ↗Turing, Intelligent Machinery (NPL report, 1948) →Claim page →
· event · dated to the year
Turing’s National Physical Laboratory report ‘Intelligent Machinery’ (1948) gives, as a reason why people assume that machinery cannot show intelligent behaviour, an “unwillingness to admit the possibility that mankind can have any rivals in intellectual power”, and compares it with the possibility of being superseded by another animal species. Evidence ↗Turing, Intelligent Machinery (NPL report, 1948) →Claim page →
· publication · dated to the year
Wiener’s Cybernetics (1948, read in the 2019 reissue) says that the new development makes the metaphorical dominance of the machines, as imagined by Samuel Butler, a most immediate and non-metaphorical problem. Evidence ↗