Etienne Cherdlu
Andrew Dinn
andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Tue Oct 15 03:28:49 CDT 1996
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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To the rushing water speak: I am.
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