Parnas was on the faculty with my husband at CMU back in the day. He was known
as “the department’s conscience.” Except, Joe said, how can you be considered
the conscience when you’re against everything? Everything whatsoever?
He was eventually let go, went to, uh, Dortmund as I recall, then
"Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as
artificial flowers have to flowers." -- David Parnas
Which is even funnier now than it was in 70's or 80's when first
said, because artificial flowers have become more and more amazing over the
decades.
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On Sun, Jun 5,
Robert:
Thanks for the pointers at the end of your remarks to the interesting
articles. I wonder, too, if someone could come up with parallel "paragon
websites." That is, here's WebMD. and displayed alongside the "best"
critics or alternatives to that site.
TJ
I have some grave concerns about AI being concentrated in the hands of a few
big firms—Google, FaceBook, Amazon, and so on. Elon Musk says the answer is
open sourcing, but I’m skeptical. That said, I’d be interested in hearing other
people’s solutions. Then again, you may not think it’s a
Hi Tom,
Interesting article about Google and their foray [actually a Blitzkrieg, as
they are buying up all of the brain trust in this area] into the world of
machine learning presumably to improve the search customer experience.
Could their efforts actually have unintended consequences for both
