Posted on September 7, 2019, 8:51 am, by Bill Rouse, under
Archetypes.
A recent book, Possible Minds (Brockman, 2019), provides 25 essays on the future of AI, building upon Norbert Wiener’s 1948 classic Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. A key distinction among these pundits is between information and control versus computation. This distinction is intriguing. My roots are definitely in the information […]
Posted on October 17, 2016, 9:08 am, by Bill Rouse, under
Archetypes.
I spent the last few days in Santa Fe, absorbed in discussions of complexity, with particular emphasis on healthcare delivery. I have delved into this topic for quite some time. Three decades ago, we published our studies on the complexity of troubleshooting – figuring out the source of unfortunate symptoms, e.g., why your car won’t […]