Etienne Cherdlu

[Andrew Dinn]

Paul Mackin writes:

> One can't help wonder if AI researcher Terry Winograd, originator of
> the famous SHRDLU natural language computer program, was possibly a
> Pynchon fan.

> W's later work (e.g., _Understanding Computers and Cognition_ (with
> Fernando Flores) ) would lead to a belief that his scope extended
> far beyond the mathematico-logical paradigm.

Winograd the AI-Apostate. If it had not been for this last book I
would have had to have disagreed. Then again TRP's comments on AI in
the Luddite piece have a distressingly hard-AI ring about them.

John McCarthy has never read Pynchon, anyway.


Andrew Dinn
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