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Document Information
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Essay introduction / article excerpt (part of government oversight file)
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Summary
This document is a page from a House Oversight Committee file (Bates Stamp HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016839) containing a biographical introduction or essay summary regarding historian George Dyson. It details his 2005 visit to Google, where he learned that Google's book scanning project was intended to train Artificial Intelligence. The text outlines Dyson's views on the resurgence of analog computing and the potential future of AI.
People (4)
| Name | Role | Context |
|---|---|---|
| George Dyson | Historian of science and technology / Author |
Subject of the text; visited Google in 2005; wrote 'Turing's Cathedral'.
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| John von Neumann | Mathematician / Physicist (Historical) |
Mentioned regarding the 60th anniversary of his proposal for a digital computer.
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| Google Founders | Founders |
Mentioned in the context of their plans for AI and book scanning.
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| Unnamed Google Host | Engineer/Host |
Quoted explaining that books are being scanned for AI reading, not human reading.
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Organizations (2)
| Name | Type | Context |
|---|---|---|
| University of Victoria |
Timeline (2 events)
2005
Locations (2)
| Location | Context |
|---|---|
Relationships (2)
awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Victoria
visited Google at the invitation of some Google engineers
Key Quotes (2)
"“We are not scanning all those books to be read by people,” explained one of his hosts after his talk. “We are scanning them to be read by an AI.”"Source
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"Nature’s response to an attempt to program machines to control everything may be machines without programming over which no one has control."Source
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Quote #2
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