In support of
@dabeaz 's theory that CS has always been a catastrophe, here is one of the stars of 1980s academic AI turning up in the Epstein files explaining that women are stupid.
https://bsky.app/profile/jessicacalarco.com/post/3mfk3gl7srs27#computerscience #ai #schank #epstein
Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com)
Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.
Bluesky SocialScripts, plans, goals, and understanding : an inquiry into human knowledge structures
For both people and machines, each in their own way, there is a serious problem in common of making sense out of what they hear, see, or are told about the world. The conceptual apparatus necessary to perform even a partial feat of understanding is formidable and fascinating. Our analysis of this apparatus is what this book is about. Roger C. Schank and Robert P. Abelson from the Introduction (http://www.psypress.com/scripts-plans-goals-and-understanding-9780898591385)