Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology by Edward Ashford Lee

15/05/2018 12h 3min
Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology by Edward Ashford Lee

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Title: Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology
Author: Edward Ashford Lee
Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Release date: May 15, 2018
Genres: Computers & Technology
Publisher's Summary:
Edward Ashford Lee explores the ways that engineers use models and abstraction to build inventive artificial worlds and to give us things that we never dreamed of—for example, the ability to carry in our pockets everything humans have ever published. But he also attempts to counter the runaway enthusiasm of some technology boosters who claim everything in the physical world is a computation—that even such complex phenomena as human cognition are software operating on digital data. Lee argues that the evidence for this is weak, and the likelihood that nature has limited itself to processes that conform to today's notion of digital computation is remote. Lee goes on to argue that artificial intelligence's goal of reproducing human cognitive functions in computers vastly underestimates the potential of computers. In his view, technology is coevolving with humans. It augments our cognitive and physical capabilities while we nurture, develop, and propagate the technology itself. Complementarity is more likely than competition.

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