> They are effectively saying they have invented strong AI using people pushing bits of paper as their computing model. And thats exactly what big corporations

> They are effectively saying they have invented strong AI using people pushing bits of paper as their computing model. And thats exactly what big corporations are doing or dream about doing (depending on their competence) with their workforce. reading their employees handbooks or HR guides would make you feel they are 100% successful. Of course reality makes it much less deterministic, yet it is their ideal - having employees as wetware AIs repeatable and predictably implementing corporate policies. (In case of Foxconn that seems to be becoming a reality without all the inconvenience of wetware.) corporations are working that way since thats the way it maximizes their returns. Just showing the natural duality between free form exploration of new "true yet unprovable" statements and rigid late stage formalization that has to be understood by startup founders.