Investigative Journalist Annie Jacobsen: War, Weaponry, and Government Secrecy
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The Computer and the Brain
John von Neumann was in essence the first brain for the Pentagon, right? So like after the war, he von Neumann became the model of who who DARPA eventually wanted thinking for them. In working on that developed this idea that one day a computer could think and there's a little story that he tells which I retell as part of that paper. He would do the math in his head and write it down and his assistant would be doing it on the computer and he would win. And after some months the computer beat him, the computer could calculate faster than he could,. Which led him to writing this very, very, very fresh philosophical treatise about how one day the computer
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