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If you can dream it, you can do it

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 Meaning :  Get inspired with the life and words of famed entrepreneur Walt Disney who said “If you can dream it, you can do it”.   The most famous quote attributed to Walt Disney, the creator of the much-loved Disney characters is “If you can dream it, you can do it.” The quote itself is beautiful, but it takes on special meaning given Walt Disney’s personal story. Struggling as a cartoonist, he created the character of Mickey Mouse and eventually, when he could not get his work published, created an animation company that immortalised his vision and is one of the largest media houses in the world today.   It is not just his business journey that is an inspiration. It is the fact that he effectively spawned a whole new industry by mainstreaming animation and creating a magical new world that inspired children. He created ‘dreams’ and for over four generations, children have grown up on a diet of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and the stories of Snow White, Alad...
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Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

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When Albert Einstein said ‘Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better’, he did not have Artificial Intelligence (AI) in mind.” Yet many of Einstein's ideas were almost purely products of his mind (if also based on previous work). Sure, he wanted to confirm them with observations, experiments, etc. However, they began life as largely mathematical ideas, despite Einstein’s stress on scientific imagery. Take the case of Eddington showing   that the sun did indeed bend light. When Einstein was informed about this, he didn’t seem to be that impressed (at least according to some accounts). In other words, he believed that he  knew  he was right well before any “empirical conformations”. So although much in AI may seem fanciful, what’s happening has occurred in all the sciences many times before: i.e., speculation, thought-experiments, etc. The article also seems to emphasise the Argument From Complexity. In other words:  it’s all down...
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