A conversation with Sussman on AI and asynchronous programming

Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-10-14T19:15:04Z

A couple weeks ago at the FSF 30th anniversary I had a mind-bending conversation with Gerald Sussman on how AI is going down the wrong path and how to set it right, asynchronous programming, the propagator model, why software freedom is critical to successful AI, better representations of math and other engineering problems, and more.

So I wrote up what I remembered of that conversation before I forgot it all. Maybe you'll find it interesting!

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I read the abstract only of the Revised Report on the Propagator Model paper, and it made me think of microservices, only on an even finer scale. Eventing and loose coupling.

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2015-10-14T23:04:19Z

Thank you for taking the time to writing about your experience and sharing it with us!

Charles Stanhope at 2015-10-15T03:06:35Z

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haven't yet tried Scheme

but that looks like a kind of.

federation !

michaelmd at 2015-10-15T05:41:30Z

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Well, Scheme is a language, but the propagator model, there's certainly links to federation there.... my interest in it originally grew out of interest in various asynchronous models of computation for federation reasons.

Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-10-15T14:02:39Z