- signal to noise ratio
- the amount of noise being produced and the amount of noise understood
- telegraph: the further the signal has to go the less clear it is; the noise is distorted
- could get electromechanical switches to do algebra
- Alan Turing- developed a test to determine the intelligence of a machine
- is it true if a machine can fool you into being a human, it has to be considered intelligent
- John Searl- one must know what they are doing and have intention to not be a machine
- machines aren’t intelligent- they just follow rules
- originality is a piece of intelligence- but is not all of it
- plagiarism is the lack of intelligence and lazy
- Claude shannon- the mathematical theory of communication
- the more uncertainty in a message the more information
- information and meaning are separate- words don’t have meaning they are just information
- words don’t care about meaning to you but are there to convey information
- are humans intelligent?
There are plenty of people who helped invent the internet and most were inspired by or in spite of each other.
- First computer
- punch cards- programs
- Arpanet- 1970 (advanced research project agency)
- transmit programing info across lines
- designed to survive nuclear attack
- Tim Berners-Lee: inventor of world wide web- find a way to make communication more universal
- hypertext- rewire authority/ make new ways for people to gain information
- http: hypertext transfer protocol
- The internet: all the worlds interconnectivity
- www subset of internet
- Information wants to be free