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...At the end of the seminar in which Gödel detonated this intellectual bombshell, the great John von Neumann laconically remarked, “it’s all over”....
...But it was his reading of Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach soon after this “amazing book” was published in 1979, that introduced him to the concepts of mind, consciousness and artificial intelligence...
...In Massachusetts he teamed with John McCarthy, another early computer scientist, to set up an AI laboratory....
...To his aid he calls mathematics (from Bertrand Russell to Godel’s theorem); physics (particularly Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle); and even meteorology....
...central message of Richard Bookstaber’s A Demon of Our Own Design (Wiley, $27.95), published to considerable interest in the financial community earlier this year, writes the FT’s Short View columnist, John...
...Abrams £24.99, 256 pages EINSTEIN 1905: The Standard of Greatness by John S....
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