Through hardware and software, symbols and code, they do their work. Though machine language has been in development for decades, it seems only recently that spoken and written language has seemed primitive by comparison. Intelligence today is forever coupled with these intensive languages of distributed communications, tied to computerized markets, economies and networks.
Talk is cheaper than ever.
Other scientists pursued the connections between computation and self-replicating organisms, paving the way for the modern study of artificial intelligence. Dyson recounts the various experiments in a clear and interesting narrative. The lay reader is more than ready to conclude, by the middle of this book, that computer code and organic matter are not dissimilar. This book is challenging and entertaining, and also explains much about the digital universe, much more so than many books which concentrate on the technological and business side. It is extensively annotated and has some interesting surprises.