From Turing to I.J. Good: Surpassing Human Intellect Was Always AI's Core Ambition
coherence · x · 2026-10-29
The author traces AI's founding ambition—machines surpassing human intellectual work to radically accelerate science—through original quotes from Turing (1950), I.J. Good (1965), and Stanisław Ulam (1963), framing today's LLM progress against a six-decade intellectual lineage.
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