All these headlines about how AI makes people lazy and dumb make me feel very smug, because I was lazy and dumb long before AI came along.
@angusm Ok, so if we go the other way, and invent Artificial Dumbness (some say we're close), would it make us intelligent ?
@harry_karadimas @angusm What we currently have is Artificial Stupidity.
@foxcj @angusm Progress !
In AI of the 70's, Stupidity was only natural
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1045339.1045340
Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity | ACM SIGART Bulletin

As a field, artificial intelligence has always been on the border of respectability, and therefore on the border of crackpottery. Many critics <Dreyfus, 1972>, <Lighthill, 1973> have urged that we are over the border. We have been very defensive toward ...

ACM SIGART Bulletin
@harry_karadimas @angusm Indeed, "… in AI, our programs to a great degree are problems rather than solutions." McDermott, 1975.