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These are amiable qualities for the computer; it imitates life like an electronic monkey. As computers get more complex, the imitation gets better. Finally, the line between the original and the copy becomes blurred. In another 15 years or so-two more generations of computer evolution, in the jargon of...
We are still in control, but the capabilities of computers are increasing at a fantastic rate, while raw human intelligence is changing slowly, if at all. Computer power is growing exponentially; it has increased tenfold every eight years since 1946. Four generations of computer evolution-vacuum tubes, transistors, simple integrated...
Computer intelligence is growing by leaps and bounds, with no natural limit in sight. But human evolution is a nearly finished chapter in the history of life. The human brain has not changed, at least in gross size, in the past 100,000 years, and while the organization of the...
Initially, Cunningham used such chance procedures as coin-tossing only to determine the order in which dance sequences would appear, not as a method of composition. Chance-directed composition is still relatively rare in his work. Yet even when chance processes direct the evolution of the dance itself, such surrender...
The Federal Farm Bureau, the largest private farm organization, would augment the government's proposals with relief from federal regulation and more liberalized credit. Neither the Agriculture Department's nor the Bureau's suggestions would solve the farmers' problem, though. The farmers don't want to see parity evolve on...