[HN Gopher] A.I. (1981)
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       A.I. (1981)
        
       Author : lioeters
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2023-07-17 12:58 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.newyorker.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.newyorker.com)
        
       | lioeters wrote:
       | > The next generation of personal computers should give their
       | users the most advanced computer languages.
       | 
       | > But someday, according to Minsky, the most useful programs for
       | personal computers will be based on artificial-intelligence
       | programs that write programs of their own. The idea is for an
       | ordinary person -- not a programmer -- to describe what he wants
       | a program to do in informal terms, perhaps simply by showing the
       | program-writing program some examples.
       | 
       | > Then it will write a computer program to do what was described
       | -- a process that will be much cheaper than hiring a professional
       | programmer.
        
       | karmakaze wrote:
       | > Backgammon is now the first board or card game with, in effect,
       | a machine world champion. Checkers, chess, go, and the rest will
       | follow--and probably quite soon.
       | 
       | I would have laughed at how technically uninformed this opinion
       | seems to be. Funny how vague macroscopic reasoning fared better
       | than a detailed bottom-up reasoning with quantification of the
       | challenge.
       | 
       | OTOH I'm sure the New Yorker also wrote a lot of interesting to
       | think about and not so well founded articles that didn't fare
       | well.
        
       | jhbadger wrote:
       | It's a good reminder that until relatively recently, board games
       | were considered major topics of AI research. And it was
       | considered a major event when Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997.
       | But now we just don't consider this AI for some reason.
        
       | minsight wrote:
       | https://archive.is/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1981/1...
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2023-07-17 23:02 UTC)