« More on global warming and hurricanes | Main | Superdome "violence": manifestation of fear under pressure » Computers are idiotsEarlier tonight I saw a presentation on 4th generation computing by Jim Brazell. Jim mentioned how we're at a point of "renewing our contract" with machines, revising the line between machine-driven decisions and human decisions. Afterward Jen Hamre and I discussed our skepticism about computers making critical decisions; I've just seen that Jamais posted a thank-you to Stanislov Petrov, whose human override of a computer's erroneous suggestion that the U.S. had launched a missle attack on the then-Soviet Union saved the U.S. from nuclear annihilation. jon posted this at 11:32 PM |
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