Gregory Bateson, a cultural anthropologist and famous cybernetics expert, was asked in the 1950s whether he thought artificial intelligence was possible in computers. He replied that he did not know, but that he believed that if you asked a computer a simple yes-or-no question and it answered by saying, "That reminds me of a story," you would be close.
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:) Interesting article. I like that you are not all over the top in the praise of AI, which happens quite a lot these days. It has its advantages but also some downsides.