Information & Control Versus Computation
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 […]
