Pattern (Neural Network)

"Anything that can be automatically done for you can be automatically done to you."

– Wyland's Law of Automation

 

"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."

– Thomas Edison, during the first public demonstration of his incandescent on 31 December 1879.

 

"Oh! nature's noblest gift—my gray-goose quill!

Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,

Torn from thy parent-bird to form a pen,

That mighty instrument of little men!"

– Lord Byron, 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' (1809).

 

"The question of whether a computer is playing chess, or doing long division, or translating Chinese, is like the question of whether robots can murder or airplanes can fly -- or people; after all, the "flight" of the Olympic long jump champion is only an order of magnitude short of that of the chicken champion (so I'm told). These are questions of decision, not fact; decision as to whether to adopt a certain metaphoric extension of common usage."

– Noam Chomsky, 'Powers and Prospects' (1996).

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