Extraits de :

Steven Levy "Hackers" Delta Publishing 1994

A propos de l'intelligence artificielle :

Levy distingue les "hackers", fanatiques du code et de la machine, et les "planners" qui s'intéressent plutôt à l'utilisation que l'on peut en faire. Ainsi, parmi les deux personnes qui ont lancé l'Apple II (le premier vrai micro-ordinateur) en avril 1977, Steve Wozniak était un "hacker" et Steve Jobs un "planner".

Voici quelles étaient les intuitions au départ de l'intelligence artificielle à la fin des années 50 :

p. 66 :

"Some of the planners envisioned a day when artificially intelligent computers would relieve man's mental burdens, much as industrial machinery had already partially lifted his physical yoke. MacCarthy and Minsky were the vanguard of this school of thought, and both had participated in a 1956 Dartmouth conference that established a foundation for research in this field."

et voici ce que pensait l'un d'entre eux en 1983 :

p. 429 :

Lee Felsenstein [said] : "We have to find a relationship between man and machine which is much more symbiotic. it's one thing to come down from one myth, but you have to replace it with another. […] You start with the tool : the tool is the embodiment of the myth. [...] The technology represents inanimate pieces of hardware, [...] inanimate ways of thinking. The myth we see in WarGames and things like that is definitely the triumph of the individual over the collective dis-spirit. [The myth is] attempting to say that the conventional wisdom and common understanding must always be open to question."

Que pensez vous de l'évolution entre ces deux phrases ?