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As We May Think No More: From Bush's Memex to AI Alignment
- docmarionum1 1y agoAn essay I wrote tracing the 80-year evolution from Vannevar Bush's 1945 vision of the memex to Geoffrey Hinton's contemporary warnings about artificial intelligence. Shout out to the Advent of Computing podcast (https://adventofcomputing.com/ https://adventofcomputing.com/) for finally getting me to read Bush's classic essay. As I read it, I was struck by the parallels in AI today.