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Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility QUOTES

Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility QUOTES

1 " AI in the form of machine learning, and especially deep learning, is letting us benefit from data we used to exclude as too vast, messy, and trivial. "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

2 " After just three days, the system so mastered the game that it was able to beat the prior version of AlphaGo a hundred games out of a hundred. "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

3 " But for the want of a nail, a kingdom was lost "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

4 " We don’t use these technologies because they are huge, connected, and complex. We use them because they work. "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

5 " The mall owes its existence to Level II complexity: malls weren’t feasible before there were cars, yet you could not predict their rise just by examining a car. "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

6 " Yet about an AlphaGo move that left some commenters literally speechless, one go master, Fan Hui, said, “It’s not a human move. I’ve never seen a human play this move.” Then, softly, “So beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

7 " the introduction, we talked about Deep Patient, a machine learning system that researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York fed hundreds of pieces of medical data about seven hundred thousand patients. As a result, it was able to predict the onset of diseases that have defied human diagnostic abilities. Likewise, a Google research project analyzed the hospital health records of 216,221 adults. From the forty-six billion data points, it was able to predict the length of a patient’s stay in the hospital, the probability that the patient would exit alive, and more.41 "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

8 " Volunteers transcribed sixty thousand words—the length of a short book—from old manuscripts to create what in machine learning language is called ground truth: "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

9 " in this way, artificial neural networks are like the brain’s very real neural network. These networks can be insanely complicated. "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

10 " For example, Deep Patient looked at five hundred factors for each of the hundreds of thousands of patients "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

11 " Our newly capacious machines can get closer to understanding it than we can, and they, as machines, don’t really understand anything at all. "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

12 " Evolution has given us minds tuned for survival and only incidentally for truth. "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

13 " how we predict shows us how we think the future happens and thus how the world works. "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

14 " For three thousand years, the Egyptians held to a cyclical view that year after year proved itself to be true: the seasons came and went, life in the farms and villages remained basically the same, and the idea of progress was as foreign as soft-serve ice cream. "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

15 " In fact, it’s entirely plausible that the factors affecting people’s preferences are microscopic and fleeting. "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility

16 " On the other hand, Clairaut reported that Lepaute exhibited an “ardor” that was “surprising”—perhaps surprising to him because Lepaute was a woman; he later removed the acknowledgment of Lepaute’s considerable contribution from the published text. (Much of her later work was published without attribution by other people, including her husband, France’s royal clockmaker.) "

― David Weinberger , Everyday Chaos: Technology, Complexity, and How We’re Thriving in a New World of Possibility