I soooo wish to know what Prof Feynman would think of today’s AI evolution/revolution.
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This from today’s “Quora”.

“On 13th March 1987, Prof Goldstein, who was teaching freshman introductory physics, invited Feynman to deliver a lecture. The topic of the lecture was General theory of relativity. Before he started with the lecture, he excitedly told class about a supernova which had appeared few weeks earlier. Then, he went on to crack a joke to defuse tension in the freshmen who were in his awe.”

"You know, there are about a hundred billion stars in the galaxy - ten to the eleventh power. That used to be considered a huge number. We used to call numbers like that 'astronomical numbers'. Today, its less than our national debt. We ought to call them 'economic numbers'."
- the class dissolved in laughter and the lecture went on.

That was the last lecture of fall the semester and the last guest lecture Feynman ever delivered.

Eleven months later Feyman passed away.

https://www.quora.com/

ciao