Grady Booch: contemporary AI is to cognition what artificial sweeteners are to nutrition
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-09-17
Software engineering pioneer Grady Booch writes: "Contemporary artificial intelligence is to cognition as artificial sweeteners are to good nutrition: full of misleading hype, distracting, and when misunderstood and misused, dangerous to one's well-being."
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