Artificial Intelligence is exactly like punching numbers into one of those old-fashioned calculators with gears and a motor in it, and then pressing the 'calculate button, except the gears and the motor have been replaced with wee tiny transistors and whatnot and the button is rendered on a hi-res touch-sensitive capacitance-display.
AI would be: the computer, on its own, reads the net, discovers that humans like humor, discovers the 'I like my x like I like my y' meme, discovers Google n-grams on its own, and (all of this without being told what to do) starts cranking out 'humor' and checking for applause.
Yeah, that’s nice. Have you been reading back issues of Analog again?
