I enjoyed this guided tour that led us into the current hot topic, AI, via the recent history of behaviourism, cognitive behaviourism, the Turing test, and Chomsky (I'd thought that his aha moment was in the late 70s when he made a case for built-in linguistic capacity - I'd thought that was the endpoint of behaviourism as normal science. Now I discover that his dissection of behaviourism began in the 1950s. I've got a lot of sympathy for the potato. You wonder what it might say once we've got the capacity to communicate with its refined streams of thought.
I enjoyed this guided tour that led us into the current hot topic, AI, via the recent history of behaviourism, cognitive behaviourism, the Turing test, and Chomsky (I'd thought that his aha moment was in the late 70s when he made a case for built-in linguistic capacity - I'd thought that was the endpoint of behaviourism as normal science. Now I discover that his dissection of behaviourism began in the 1950s. I've got a lot of sympathy for the potato. You wonder what it might say once we've got the capacity to communicate with its refined streams of thought.