the Obama administration, while sharing the hope that nuclear fusion will one day be harnessed as a power source, concluded that the MIT experiment was a waste of taxpayer money. It deemed MIT’s facility outdated and small, the least scientifically useful of three domestic fusion reactors. Indeed, critics of the experiment said it amounts to a $1.5 million-per-student training program that MIT wants to keep going to protect its turf and prestige.

"I got a little glimmer of fame because Danny Bobrow wrote up 'A Turing Test Passed".....One of the execs at BBN came into the PDP-I computer room and thought that Danny Bobrow was dialed into that and thought he was talking to Danny. For us folk that had played with ELIZA, we all recognized the responses and we didn't know how humanlike they were. But for somebody who wasn't real familiar with ELIZA, it seemed perfectly reasonable. It was obnnoxious but he actually thought it was Danny Bobrow. 'But tell me more about--' 'Earlier, you said you wanted to go to the client's place.' Things like that almost made sense in context, until eventually he typed something and he forgot to hit the go button, so the program didn't respond. And he thought that Danny had disconnected. So he called Danny up at home and yelled at him. And Danny has absolutely no idea what was going on......."

...and your brain, during a game of Jeopardy, is what if not a search engine?

Whether you "believe in" AI or not, progress is happening.

Half your entrances are trying to convince you they are human, the other half that they are AI, and half of each are lying.

Strange to compare it with COBOL. Cobol is particularly verbose, and stresses defining everything exactly up front.

Whereas Swift is concise, and always tries to avoid the need to explicitly state things where they are already fixed by context.

Any language can be abused to create unreadable code. For C they even have the Obfuscated C contest. It's part of a programmer's job to make his code readable and beautiful.

How do you know other humans "think like a human"?

As to this situation. I'd have to see the thing. I can't take anyone's word for this sort of thing anymore..