Subject: Re: A thought about AI
Get used to looking both ways twice when crossing the street till the cars at least manage the concept of (say) object permanence : )

Sixty-six years ago:

"Economic corpuscles in an artery of Man, the behemoths charged heedlessly past
the two monks who dodged them from lane to lane. To be
felled by one of them was to be run over by truck after
truck until a safety cruiser found the flattened imprint of a
man on the pavement and stopped to clean it up."

- A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M Miller Jr, 1959

-- sutton
always really liked that book