1970s AI bros (incl McCarthy) whining about the inventor of ELIZA telling them to gfy
1970s AI bros (incl McCarthy) whining about the inventor of ELIZA telling them to gfy
Just a moment...
1970s AI bros (incl McCarthy) whining about the inventor of ELIZA telling them to gfy
Just a moment...
From McCarthy's reply:
omg this statement sounds 100% like something that could be posted today by Sam Altman on X. It's hititing exactly the sweet spot between appearing precise but also super vague, like Altman's "a few thousand days".
That sentence is somewhere between exactly 420.69 and 1,337.00 millialtmans of cringe.
That paragraph begins,
Weizenbaum replies,
It's a snidely jokey response to an argument that Weizenbaum didn't make!
And even if Joseph Weizenbaum did actually say, verbatim: “if the problem hasn’t been solved in twenty years, it is time to give up”, that's not the same as asking for the precise time when “machines will reach human-level intelligence”.
It's sarcasm. The question asks for unwarranted precision and the response is a joke.
Imagining a guy who asks me a dumb question so I can let everyone know how I'd mock them with a joke answer.
Ah, thanks, well my sarcasm detector isn't that good.