Summary of James Bridle's Ways of Being

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#1 I tried to build an autonomous vehicle several years ago. It didn’t drive itself, but it did take me to some interesting places. The idea of a self-driving car is fascinating to me not for its capabilities, but for its place in our imagination.

#2 I wanted to understand AI better, so I trained the car to drive at random, taking almost every side road and turning I came across. By watching me, the car learned to get lost too.

#3 The umwelt is the environment of a particular organism, and it is created by that organism’s knowledge and perceptions. It is a useful concept in robotics as well as biology.

#4 The images above illustrate a little of how the car sees the world. The important details are the lines on the side of the road, which are important to the car because they help it stay on the road.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350031546

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I tried to build an autonomous vehicle several years ago. It didn’t drive itself, but it did take me to some interesting places. The idea of a self-driving car is fascinating to me not for its capabilities, but for its place in our imagination.

#2

I wanted to understand AI better, so I trained the car to drive at random, taking almost every side road and turning I came across. By watching me, the car learned to get lost too.

#3

The umwelt is the environment of a particular organism, and it is created by that organism’s knowledge and perceptions. It is a useful concept in robotics as well as biology.

#4

The images above illustrate a little of how the car sees the world. The important details are the lines on the side of the road, which are important to the car because they help it stay on the road.

#5

The current, dominant form of artificial intelligence is not creative or collaborative. It is either totally subservient or oppositional, aggressive, and dangerous. It is pattern analysis, image description, facial recognition, and traffic management.

#6

Intelligence is not only the capacity for logic, comprehension, self-awareness, learning, emotional understanding, creativity, reasoning, problem-solving, and planning, but also the ability to operate at the same level and in the same manner as human intelligence.

#7

The Turing Test is still the most widely understood way of thinking about the capabilities of artificial intelligence. It was proposed by Alan Turing in a 1950 paper, ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence. ’ He thought that instead of questioning whether computers were truly intelligent, we could at least establish that they appeared intelligent.

#8

Turing’s argument that machines can take us by surprise reflects his own thinking, which was that human intelligence is not all that great. He also noted that intelligence is multiple and relational, and that it exists between, rather than within, beings of all and diverse kinds.

#9

The gibbon is a classic example of how we like to evaluate the intelligence of other animals. They would ignore the stick and fail to obtain the food, which made them less intelligent according to scientific categorization. But in 1967, four gibbons took part in an experiment and showed us what we’d been missing.

#10

The 1967 experiment was designed to account for the fact that gibbons are brachiators. In their natural forest habitat, they spend almost all their time in the trees, and move around by