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So, Grant brought up one more thing before they left the topic of work. “What do you guys think about artificial intelligence? Is that ever going to go anywhere?”
Porter chuckled, “There’s a paper from a few years back called ‘Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity.’ You might want to read that.” The other guys laughed.
Patrick announced, “I’ll never forget his opening line, ‘As a field, artificial intelligence has always been on the border of respectability, and therefore on the border of crackpottery.’”
Porter sat back with a wide grin, “I think they crossed that border several years ago. That’s why they can’t get any more funding.”
Ray said, “Hey, the big breakthrough is only 10 years away. And always will be!”
Grant had the strong impression from their approving looks that they weren’t impressed with AI. He wasn’t ready to give up quite yet, “Didn’t they do some cool stuff, like Blocks World? I loved how you could say ‘pick up a big red block,’ and it did it.”
Ray interrupted, “Winograd’s around all the time. You could talk to him.”
My book https://www.albertcory.io/inventing-the-future has a chapter set in 1979 or so, at the Dutch Goose, where AI Winter 1.0 is fully underway:
===== So, Grant brought up one more thing before they left the topic of work. “What do you guys think about artificial intelligence? Is that ever going to go anywhere?”
Porter chuckled, “There’s a paper from a few years back called ‘Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity.’ You might want to read that.” The other guys laughed.
Patrick announced, “I’ll never forget his opening line, ‘As a field, artificial intelligence has always been on the border of respectability, and therefore on the border of crackpottery.’”
Porter sat back with a wide grin, “I think they crossed that border several years ago. That’s why they can’t get any more funding.”
Ray said, “Hey, the big breakthrough is only 10 years away. And always will be!”
Grant had the strong impression from their approving looks that they weren’t impressed with AI. He wasn’t ready to give up quite yet, “Didn’t they do some cool stuff, like Blocks World? I loved how you could say ‘pick up a big red block,’ and it did it.”
Ray interrupted, “Winograd’s around all the time. You could talk to him.”