Commentary: Our obsession with work emails has worsened during COVID-19 Toggle share menu
Advertisement
Commentary: Our obsession with work emails has worsened during COVID-19 The slight anxiety of not knowing what’s in your inbox can feel more stressful than quickly checking it the second you wake up, says the Financial Times Elaine Moore.
COVID-19 has forced many companies to adopt flexible and remote working arrangements. (Photo: Unsplash/Priscilla Du Preez)
14 May 2021 07:06AM) Share this content
Bookmark
LONDON: Herbert A Simon, the economist who first outlined the idea of the “attention economy”, warned us years ago that too much information muddled our brains. Instead of listening, we bought iPhones.
The Birthplace of AI cantorsparadise.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cantorsparadise.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A separate article about Simon’s quotation is available here.
In 1972 philosopher and AI critic Hubert L. Dreyfus published “What Computers Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason”, and he referred to Minsky’s prediction:
Is there, thus, any reason to be confident that these programs are approaching the “superior heuristics for managing their knowledge structure” which Minsky believed human beings must have; or, as Minsky claims in another of his books, that
within a generation . . . few compartments of intellect will remain outside the machine’s realm the problem of creating “artificial intelligence” will be substantially solved.”
In 2005 science journalist Ellen Ullman referred to Minsky’s prediction, but she also noted that he had subsequently revised his stance:
Innovation | Center for International Maritime Security cimsec.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cimsec.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.