I have trouble getting past association biases. Symbolic programming was going to be the Next Big Thing for most of the ’80s (it wasn’t). Stephen Wolfram invented a field of study so revolutionary it could only be called a New Kind of Science (it isn’t). Reading about either sets off vaporware alarms in my mind; reading about the two combined is deafening.
I have trouble getting past association biases. Symbolic programming was going to be the Next Big Thing for most of the ’80s (it wasn’t). Stephen Wolfram invented a field of study so revolutionary it could only be called a New Kind of Science (it isn’t). Reading about either sets off vaporware alarms in my mind; reading about the two combined is deafening.
That said, Wolfram is an elegant language with unusually clean libraries written by extremely sharp people. I don’t wish the project ill.
If we don’t want a AGI in the near future, shouldn’t we wish projects like that ill?