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> Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. I gave that book to my mathematician grandma, and she found it so boring she couldn’t finish it - “All this stuff
by suslik 2mo ago
> Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.
I gave that book to my mathematician grandma, and she found it so boring she couldn’t finish it - “All this stuff was known for decades”. True anecdote.
- eru 2mo agoWell, it's a pop-sci tome, not a research article. However, it is pretty dated these days.
- taybin 2mo agoHow is it dated?
- jcranmer 2mo agoA large chunk of the book is philosophizing about AI and the nature of the mind and intelligence. And when it's betting on the AI that existed pre-AI winter... yeah, that part is quite dated.
- taybin 2mo agoYou should see his book "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, which is entirely about his experiments with AI in The Fluid Analogies Research Group with his grad students. Although I wonder if those techniques could be paired with LLMs somehow.