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TechTakes@awful.systems•awesome old AI paper Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity (PDF, 1976)English
2·5 months agoSo many of the criticisms here survive essentially unchanged, fifty years later:
If he calls the main loop of his program “UNDERSTAND”, he is (until proven innocent) merely begging the question. He may mislead a lot of people, most prominently himself, and enrage a lot of others.[…] If Quillian <1969> had called his program the “Teachable Language Node Net Intersection Finder”, he would have saved us some reading. (Except for those of us fanatic about finding the part on teachability.)

GEMA versus OpenAI. Whoever wins, we all lose.
But I’m still happy to see them fight.