Epstein Secrets

ero”, when they are revealed to have been running wild inside some hapless network or machine. That firs

reakthrough. So after developing his algorithms, he wanted to find an intuitive demonstration. He decided to build a 175 In 1965: Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, W.H. Freeman and Company, 1976 p. 7 120 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018352 system that could, in a very limited sense, converse. The computer would take type

tive strategy of the Greek astronomers, which was wild with metaphorical imagery: circular tubes full of

ons” (as Kant put it) presented to them. It is important that we keep it that way, which will take some doing. One of the flaws in Weizenbaum’s book Computer Power and Human Reason, something I tried in vain to convince him of in many hours of discussion, is that he could never decide which of two theses he wanted to defend: AJ

tive strategy of the Greek astronomers, which was wild with metaphorical imagery: circular tubes full of

ons” (as Kant put it) presented to them. It is important that we keep it that way, which will take some doing. One of the flaws in Weizenbaum’s book Computer Power and Human Reason, something I tried in vain to convince him of in many hours of discussion, is that he could never decide which of two theses he wanted to defend: AJ