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@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2025-05-08 08:03:00

Next stop on our NLP timeline (as part of the #ISE2025 lecture) was Terry Winograd's SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding system developed in 1968-70 that could manipulate blocks in a virtual world.
Winograd, T. Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language. MIT AI Technical Report 235.

Slide from the Information Service Engineering 2025 lecture, Natural Language Processing 01, A Brief History of NLP, NLP Timeline. The picture depicts a timeline in the middle from top to bottom. There is a marker placed at 1970. Left of the timeline, a screenshot of the SHRDLU system is shown displaying a block world in simple line graphics. On the right side, the following text is displayed: SHRDLU was an early natural language understanding system developed by Terry Winograd in 1968-70 that …
@Madelen@social.linux.pizza
2025-03-19 09:39:08

I think people are overestimating AI for programming. I mean to use it effectively you need to know what you are doing. When you want it to make something, you need an understanding of how it will function. If you can't explain how it should work, it won't be right. AI is a tool to program better, not a replacement for developers.
#programming