The Problem With Prediction - Aeon

Ardent followers of Eric Wargo appreciate humanity's knack for precognition, but machines? And what if we put them together like so much chocolate and peanut butter? There is such an alliance in force right now and Joseph Fridman lays out the gory details from early cybernetics, merging human consciousness with machines, and the F-word's dabbling in God's domain in pursuit of the almighty dollar. An aside to Fridman's piece, humans aren't just able to attune themselves with machines based on experiments with Homuncular Flexibility In Virtual Reality. Raising the question, does the predictiveness come from the humans or are clever algorithms enough to perform this divine feat? (CS)

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