Symbolic AI utterly failed — viral debate pits GOFAI against scaling and Dario's bet
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-09
- A viral quip mocked the idea that arranging words and symbols systematically can create intelligent golems, noting the two companies founded on this are worth trillions.
- AI commentator teortaxesTex countered that this is exactly GOFAI, Cyc, and Minsky's frames — a completely failed approach — crediting Dario Amodei for seeing early that neurosymbolic tinkering wouldn't produce a Golem, and instead embracing Anglo Thought: maxing objective optimization pressure.
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