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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016333)" |
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| To be sure, some recent achievements in artificial intelligence have been |
| remarkably impressive. Computers can now produce visual artworks and musical |
| compositions akin to those of recognized masters, creating just the sort of "information" |
| that Wiener most prized. But by far the largest impact on society to date has come from |
| the collection and manipulation of Shannon-like information, which has reshaped our |
| shopping habits, political participation, personal relationships, expectations of privacy, |
| and more. |
| What might "deep learning" evolve into, if the fundamental currency becomes |
| "information" as Wiener defined it? How might the field shift if re-animated by |
| Wiener's deep moral convictions, informed as they were by his prescient concerns about |
| rampant militarism, runaway corporate profit-seeking, the self-limiting features of |
| secrecy, and the reduction of human expression to interchangeable commodities? |
| Perhaps "deep learning" might then become the cultivation of meaningful information |
| rather than the relentless pursuit of potent, if meaningless, bits. |
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