On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 10:20:49 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 01:20 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: > > As a parallel here is Dijkstra making fun of AI-ers use of the word > > 'intelligent' > > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD618.html > > Nice rant, but as is typical of so many rants by Dijkstra, it's overflowing > with smugness at his own cleverness, and very light on actual reasoning or > sense.
The cleverness and smugness has made you miss the point: Post-computers 'intelligent' has a new meaning on account of abuse of langauge -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
