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Like alchemy and behaviorism in their time, AI projects an image of good health in spite of its difficulties. However, its feverish activity and strident claims, and the tendency of its practitioners to abandon theory and exploit current techniques, may well be signs of its crisis.
Yet I may be wrong: perhaps what I take for gold and diamonds is really nothing but a bit of copper and glass. I know how much we are liable to err in matters that concern us, and also how much the judgements of our friends should be distrusted when they are in our favour.
To go for a walk is to wander along paths that lead nowhere in particular: it is both a search and a succession of changes.