XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:47:23 -0500, c186282 wrote:   
      
      
   >    Ah, LISP, the only language composed entirely of randomly spaced   
   >    brackets   
      
   As I've said I spent one winter curled up with the Scheme Wizard book. It   
   requires a unique way of thinking.   
      
   >    They've THOUGHT they had 'AI' more than once. Minsky was sure it'd be   
   >    easy during the 60s. Then, as you said, the 80s came and went but no   
   >    'AI' worth a damn.   
      
   Much of the neural network operations are still the same today but the   
   hardware didn't exist to do millions of tensor operations in any finite   
   time for anything but a toy app. 'I need 50 billion to build a center that   
   will suck up the power and water from three states' wasn't going to happen   
   even if the hardware did exist.   
      
   The neural network approach was taken over by 'expert systems'  The   
   problem was you more or less needed a human expert on hand. Blend NN and   
   expert and you have something that sucks in petabytes of data, sort of   
   links together tokens (words) that commonly are used together, declares   
   itself an expert, and spits out pieces it has acquired like a vomiting   
   magpie.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)