Not that they hadn’t tried, though. When the book came out, many of the bigshot AI researchers accused Weizenbaum of sour grapes on account of no longer being able to contribute anything original as a scientist.
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Well, they would…
aug 29, 2025, 2:07 am • 1 0 • view
Do you mean Minsky?
aug 29, 2025, 2:18 am • 1 0 • view
Yes, among others. It’s described in some detail in Pamela McCorduck’s _Machines Who Think_.
aug 29, 2025, 2:19 am • 2 0 • view
I think of Minsky as the Kurzweil of his time, always claiming the current AI was doing way more than it actually was doing, or en route to doing more than it ever would
aug 29, 2025, 2:24 am • 4 0 • view
and he was a child molester
aug 29, 2025, 2:25 am • 2 0 • view
Yeahhh that too
aug 29, 2025, 2:26 am • 1 0 • view
To be fair, his Society of Mind framework was fairly sophisticated. But he did have a bit of a fanatic’s zeal in him.
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