Hi Alan,
I can't predict what will come, but I definitely have a sense of where I think
we should go. Collectively as a species, we know a great deal, but individually
people still make important choices based on too little knowledge.
In a very abstract sense 'intelligence' is just a more dynamic offshoot of
'evolution'. A sort of hyper-evolution. It allows a faster route towards
reacting to changes in the enviroment, but it is still very limited by
individual perspectives of the world. I don't think we need AI in the classic
Hollywood sense, but we could enable a sort of hyper-intelligence by giving
people easily digestable access to our collective understanding. Not a 'borg'
style single intelligence, but rather just the tools that can be used to make
descisions that are more "accurate" than an individual would have made
normally.
To me the path to get there lies within our understanding of data. It needs to
be better organized, better understood and far more accessible. It can't keep
getting caught up in silos, and it really needs ways to share it appropriately.
The world changes dramatically when we've developed the ability to fuse all of
our digitized information into one great structural model that has the
capability to separate out fact from fiction. It's a long way off, but I've
always thought it was possible...
Paul.
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> From: Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com>
>To: Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 7:48:22 AM
>Subject: Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report abandoned?
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>Hi Jonathan
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>
>We are not soliciting proposals, but we like to hear the opinions of others on
>"burning issues" and "better directions" in computing.
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>Cheers,
>
>
>Alan
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>________________________________
> From: Jonathan Edwards <edwa...@csail.mit.edu>
>To: fonc@vpri.org
>Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 4:44 AM
>Subject: Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report abandoned?
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>That's great news! We desperately need fresh air. As you know, the way a
>problem is framed bounds its solutions. Do you already know what problems to
>work on or are you soliciting proposals?
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>
>Jonathan
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>From: Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com>
>>To: Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org>
>>Cc:
>>Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 10:45:50 -0700 (PDT)
>>Subject: Re: [fonc] Final STEP progress report abandoned?
>>
>>Hi Dan
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>>
>>It actually got written and given to NSF and approved, etc., a while ago, but
>>needs a little more work before posting on the VPRI site.
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>>Meanwhile we've been consumed by setting up a number of additional, and wider
>>scale, research projects, and this has occupied pretty much all of my time
>>for the last 5-6 months.
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>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>
>>Alan
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>>
>>
>>________________________________
>> From: Dan Melchione <dm.f...@melchione.com>
>>To: fonc@vpri.org
>>Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 10:40 AM
>>Subject: [fonc] Final STEP progress report abandoned?
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>>Haven't seen much regarding this for a while. Has it been been abandoned or
>>put at such low priority that it is effectively abandoned?
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