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"There has been over a decade of work worldwide in Darwinian approaches to generating software, and... nothing has arisen from the work that would make software in general any better."
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Jaron Lanier"The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates."
Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer scientist, futurist, and composer. Considered a founder of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and wired gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and va
"There has been over a decade of work worldwide in Darwinian approaches to generating software, and... nothing has arisen from the work that would make software in general any better."
"The greatest crime of Marxism wasnt simply that much of what it claimed was false but that it claimed to be the sole and utterly complete path to understanding life and reality."
"Im hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology."
"People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience."
"The problem is that in every example we know, a layer that can change fast also cant change very much."
"There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility."