Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, William Poundstone looks at the current hoopla over AI and puts it in context by recalling the Turing test and, later, a computer program called ELIZA, which was capable of carrying on limited conversations via text.
One passage in particular caught my eye. Poundstone cites a comment by MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum, the creator of ELIZA, reacting to how willing persons were to think of ELIZA as sentient:
One wonders what Weizenbaum might say today.
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