Comment by DonHopkins

In Jaron Lanier's review of John Markoff's book "What the Dormouse Said", he mentioned an exchange between Douglass Engelbart and Marvin Minsky:

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>Engelbart once told me a story that illustrates the conflict succinctly. He met Marvin Minsky — one of the founders of the field of AI — and Minsky told him how the AI lab would create intelligent machines. Engelbart replied, "You're going to do all that for the machines? What are you going to do for the people?" This conflict between machine- and human-centered design continues to this day.