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One of the analogies that #JosephWeizenbaum uses in #ComputerPowerAndHumanReason is to the use of statistics and probability by professional gamblers to make a living, while discussing the compulsive programmer vs the compulsive gambler. The professional is the person who uses the tool, the compulsive the one who does not.
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I find it depressing that #CarlSagan ever wrote this, and that, were he alive today, he might be taking part in the current #AIHype. Cc @emilymbender @meg @timnitGebru
(An excerpt from #JosephWeizenbaum’s #ComputerPowerAndHumanReason, Page 5)
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> “On the one hand the computer makes it possible in principle to live in a world of plenty for everyone, on the other hand we are well on our way to using it to create a world of suffering and chaos. Paradoxical, no?”
> “there are certain tasks which computers ought not to be made to do, independent of whether computers can be made to do them.”
https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/computers-enable-fantasies-on-the-continued-relevance-of-weizenbaums-warnings/
#JosephWeizenbaum #ComputerPowerAndHumanReason