[LINK] Talking about AI

[Glen Turner]

The essential argument was between artificial intelligence (John
McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Herbert A Simon, based around MIT, CMU and
Stanford SAIL) and computer augmentation of human thought (Vannevar
Bush, Douglas Engelbart, based around Stanford's SRI and, later, Xerox
PARC). There was some bad blood between the two groups; bear that in
mind if you read historical documents.

Good Old Fashioned AI is now widely seen as having limited success. The
predictions of practitioners of the time now look a little fantastical.
Many of the algorithms of the era are today learned and used without
the related claims of 'intelligence'.

Augmentation of human thought was a dramatic success. The smartphone is
pretty much an implementation of Bush and Engelbart's wildest dreams.

-glen