Industry Can't Keep Up With ACL --- October 2 1993
“As it stands, the vast majority of so-called "artificial
intelligence” systems are really not intelligent at all,” says Dr
Marvin Minsky, an AI expert and senior professor at MIT. “They are
programs created to access libraries of information compiled by
educated men, present it to the user and act as though it had itself
conjured it. Meanwhile REGNAD appears to have somehow, despite the
impossibility, discovered an artificial system which is truly and
actually intelligent. This is a thing that is so fantastical that,
if I could not look under the hood and confirm its authenticity, I
would believe it to be a kind of Mechanical Turk — but there is no
human mind hidden beneath the chessboard quietly pulling on the
strings. I try to resist the urge to recoil at the knowledge of
something so powerful and so unknown being happily brought into the
homes of thousands of American families.”
