I’ve been this man’s therapist since 1985. I can speak openly about this because I am also his daughter, and therefore the normal confidentiality statutes do not apply. He’s an incredible thinker and excellent story-teller. I deeply appreciate the perspective he shares in this message about AI and our future. I am as terrified about AI as I am about what we have done with all the many powerful tools and inventions we’ve created in our short time on this planet. This terror tells me that we must learn to do better. My expensive education in clinical psychology has taught me that we can’t do better until we are honest about what we are and why we are that way. Avron has helped me be hopeful that AI can help us see ourselves with the requisite clarity. AI has a leg up because it is less ‘judgy’ than your average therapist.
Oh wow, how wonderful to see Avron again. And to hear that he has been involved with AI for 50 years. I thought they just though up AI ten years ago! — Not really, but I didn’t think it was that old. 1972? We all did not have personal computers until something like 1985. And even the Internet is not that old. We did not have the Internet until the med 80s. – Fascinating interview, and it surely brings back memories of the Golden Age of NSA/NC, at least the Golden Age for you, me, and Avron and a whole slew of others. — Thanks for this provocative interview!
I am left with a question, now that I think about it. AI gets its information by scouring the Internet for data. What did AI consist of in 1972, before there was the Internet?
Great interview–well done!
I’ve been this man’s therapist since 1985. I can speak openly about this because I am also his daughter, and therefore the normal confidentiality statutes do not apply. He’s an incredible thinker and excellent story-teller. I deeply appreciate the perspective he shares in this message about AI and our future. I am as terrified about AI as I am about what we have done with all the many powerful tools and inventions we’ve created in our short time on this planet. This terror tells me that we must learn to do better. My expensive education in clinical psychology has taught me that we can’t do better until we are honest about what we are and why we are that way. Avron has helped me be hopeful that AI can help us see ourselves with the requisite clarity. AI has a leg up because it is less ‘judgy’ than your average therapist.
Wow…So informative…Crazy AI!
Oh wow, how wonderful to see Avron again. And to hear that he has been involved with AI for 50 years. I thought they just though up AI ten years ago! — Not really, but I didn’t think it was that old. 1972? We all did not have personal computers until something like 1985. And even the Internet is not that old. We did not have the Internet until the med 80s. – Fascinating interview, and it surely brings back memories of the Golden Age of NSA/NC, at least the Golden Age for you, me, and Avron and a whole slew of others. — Thanks for this provocative interview!
I am left with a question, now that I think about it. AI gets its information by scouring the Internet for data. What did AI consist of in 1972, before there was the Internet?
Another great interview- with the man who literally wrote the book on AI!