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That confused me too, both clearly work unless there is some definition of work that excludes things which have earned many people many billions of dollars. Hoa

• zwieback 10y ago
  The quote is probably 20 years old now, at the time people were pretty disillusioned about AI and OO was a craze. Stepanov had other ideas. Here's more context: http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html
  • sqeaky 10y ago
    That makes way more sense, the article should have indicated it was using an out of date topical quote.
    • sampo 10y ago
      Who knows, maybe he still feels the same way?
• _delirium 10y ago
  If you're thinking of the recent boom in machine learning specifically, there are plenty of people in ML, even people making lots of money from it, who think the concept of "artificial intelligence" is a recurring hoax, or at best an overselling aimed at people who've read more sci-fi than science. Of course plenty of people think otherwise, too, but it's not a rare view within the field.
  • sqeaky 10y ago
    This is another way of thinking about I had not originally thought of, thank you.