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> Systems biology did not rise without skepticism. The great geneticist and Nobel-prize winning biologist Sydney Brenner once defined the field as "low input, high throughput, no output science." Brenner, a contemporary of Chomsky who also participated in the same symposium on AI, was equally skeptical about new systems approaches to understanding the brain...Brenner's catch-phrase.. is not far off from Chomsky's criticism of AI. An unlikely pair, systems biology and artificial intelligence...
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-chomsky-on-where-artificial-intelligence-went-wrong/261637/
#SydneyBrenner #SystemsBiology
bs2In 2012, Noam Chomsky was interviewed "on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong":
> Chomsky discusses a new field in systems biology called “Connectomics,” an attempt to map the wiring of all the neurons in the brain—an endeavor prickly biologist Sydney Brenner calls “a form of insanity.” Katz asks if the “wiring diagram” of the brain would provide “the right level of abstraction” for understanding its workings.
https://www.openculture.com/2012/11/noam_chomsky_explains_where_artificial_intelligence_went_wrong_.html
#Chomsky with #SydneyBrenner on AI:
> Chomsky discusses a new field in systems biology called “Connectomics,” an attempt to map the wiring of all the neurons in the brain—an endeavor prickly biologist Sydney Brenner calls “a form of insanity.” Katz asks if the “wiring diagram” of the brain would provide “the right level of abstraction” for understanding its workings.
https://www.openculture.com/2012/11/noam_chomsky_explains_where_artificial_intelligence_went_wrong_.html
#Chomsky with #SydneyBrenner on AI:
