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From this perspective, life is biological hardware running survival software.
Bobby Azarian • The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness, and Cosmic Complexity
In most computer projects there comes a day when it is discovered that the machine and the manual don't agree. When the confrontation follows, the manual usually loses, for it can be changed far more quickly and cheaply than the machine.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr. • Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition, The: Essays On Software Engineering
There is an additional element of importance: these systems usually generate implicit internal models of their environments, models progressively revised and improved as the system accumulates experience. The systems learn.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Artificial Intelligence
Timothy Shih and • 236 cards
The assumptions were fairly strong, and the domains were too simple to be of any immediate practical use—they were a far cry from the complexity of the human gait—but IRL did work.