by David Tollen | Jul 29, 2023 | Ancient History, The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Earliest Civilizations in Eurasia
This is the third of three posts on general purpose technologies and on what their history tells us about AI. Click here for the first post in the series and here for the second post. 3. The Ultimate General Purpose Technology: Farming Agriculture arose around 9500...
by David Tollen | Jun 13, 2023 | The Early Modern Age, The Recent Modern Age
In a 2023 Wall Street Journal article, Henry Kissinger and two collaborators argue that artificial intelligence will disrupt our world at a level not seen since the printing press.1Kissinger, Schmidt, Huttenlocher, “ChatGPT Heralds an Intellectual Revolution:...
