Grady Booch: contemporary AI 'thinks' only in a particularly casual sense of the word
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-09-25
Software engineering pioneer Grady Booch quotes the line that critics without programming/math skills are 'like blind men trying to understand an elephant,' then adds that from his decades of experience in programming and AI, contemporary AI 'thinks' only to the degree one holds a particularly casual meaning of the word 'think'.
A notable exchange on whether AI can be said to think at all, from a heavyweight in the field.
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