The Atomic Human

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Bauby and Shannon


bits/min	billions	2000	6
billion calculations/s	~100	a billion	a billion
embodiment	20 minutes	5 billion years	15 trillion years

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

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bits/min	\(100 \times 10^{-9}\)	\(2,000\)	\(600 \times 10^9\)

Epilogue

book: The Atomic Human
twitter: @lawrennd
The Atomic Human pages atomic human, the 13 , Le Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) 10–12, Bauby, Jean Dominique 9–11, 18, 90, 99-101, 133, 186, 212–218, 234, 240, 251–257, 318, 368–369, Shannon, Claude 10, 30, 61, 74, 98, 126, 134, 140, 143, 149, 260, 264, 269, 277, 315, 358, 363, baby shoes 368, Blake, William Newton 121–123, Blake, William Newton 121–123, 258, 260, 283, 284, 301, 306, MONIAC 232-233, 266, 343, human-analogue machine (HAMs) 343-347, 359-359, 365-368, Human evolution rates 98-99, Psychological representation of Ecologies 323-327.
Sunday Times article “Our lives may be enhanced by AI, but Big Tech just sees dollar signs”
Times article “Don’t expect AI to just fix everything, professor warns”
blog posts:

Dan Andrews image of our reflective obsession with AI

Two Types of Stochastic Parrots

Dan Andrews image from Chapter 3

Art is Human

the launch of Facebook’s AI lab

Who is Stepping Up?

Bender, E.M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., Shmitchell, S., 2021. On the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?, in: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, FAccT ’21. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 610–623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922

Scally, A., 2016. Mutation rates and the evolution of germline structure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0137