This week’s Nostradamus award goes to George Morrow, whose every prediction was prescient, in an article 40 years ago.

The article includes George’s take on AI:

“To be really user friendly, a machine ought to be able to understand what I meant and not what I said.

  “Suppose we made a machine that was intelligent. If I were a machine and I were intelligent and I were competing for scarce resources, and I looked around at human beings, I think I’d decide they were redundant. And if I ever needed to find out the way they did anything I could just get a movie out and run it, and that’s the way I’d find out. Why put up with humans? I don’t want something like that.”

He also had some words about AI in The Wisdom Of Chairman Morrow: “More money has been wasted in artificial intelligence than in any other area of computer technology.  We’re still not close to having any real idea or model of how the human brain works.” As true today as it was 42 years ago.