I don’t think this article about Mark Twain, a famous guy one hundred and fifty years ago, lost all of his money betting on the wrong thing is about chat bots. He lost his money before all that
replyWe will never know if Mark Twain would have or would not have lost his money betting on chat bots because he lost it all on a different machine that didn’t work
> Twain’s vision of hundreds of thousands of human-like language machines taking over the world would have to wait a century or two. (...)
reply> I’d argue that there’s a clear line connecting the automation of typesetting and counting in the late 19th century to the rise of electrical computers a generation later, and then the early Internet and AI research a generation after that. (...)
> I think there are three transferrable lessons we can pull from this story: (...)