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Hofstadter won a Pulitzer in 1980. His books are among the most important ever written about the meaning and structure of AI. He's had four decades where he cou
by StrictDabbler 3y ago
Hofstadter won a Pulitzer in 1980. His books are among the most important ever written about the meaning and structure of AI. He's had four decades where he could have milked that reputation for money or influence and he's chosen hard academic research at every branch point.
He sold millions of copies of a densely-written 777 page book about semantic encoding (GEBEGB).
It is insane and/or ignorant to imagine he's jonesing for clout or trying to ride the ML wave.
- iamleppert 3y agoIncredible! Basically proves my point, you came here to tell me to buy his book. Maybe he's really worried that AI is going to put people like him out of a job when it can produce and market content at scale?
- slowmovintarget 3y agoIt cannot produce that kind of content. Especially with the current lobotomizations.
- StrictDabbler 3y agoYes. The 78-year-old Pulitzer-prize winner with forty years of tenure, several fellowships, multiple books in every library in the country, who spent his entire life trying to develop AI software, is merely "worried" that AI is going to "put people like him out of a job". He's explicitly expressing a deep existential sadness at how computationally simple certain artistic endeavors turned out to be and how that's devalued them in his mind but at the end of the day it's really just about his paycheck. Also I'm totally here trying to sell you his books. Nice job, Diogenes. Your cynicism cracked the case.