This is quite a prophetic article for its time (1993). The points about Intelligence Augmentation are particularly relevant for us now as current AI mostly comp

This is quite a prophetic article for its time (1993). The points about Intelligence Augmentation are particularly relevant for us now as current AI mostly complements human intelligence rather than surpass it... At least AFAIK? Current AI is somewhat surprising though in the way that it can lead both to increased understanding or increased delusion depending on who uses it and how they use it. When you ask an LLM a question, your use of language tells it what body of knowledge to tap into; this can lead you astray on certain topics where mass confusion/delusion is widespread and incorporated into its training set. LLMs cannot seem to be able to synthesize conflicting information to resolve logical contradictions so an LLM will happily and confidently lecture you through conflicting ideas and then they will happily apologize for any contradictions which you point out in its explanations; the apology it gives is so clear and accurate that it gives the appearance that it actually understands logic... And yet, apparently, it could not see or resolve the logical contradiction internally before you drew attention to it. In an odd way though, I guess all humans are a little bit like this... Though generally less extreme and, on the downside, far less willing to acknowledge their mistakes on the spot.