Both you and @FrankWilhoit were probably using a version of E12 (Shrager73BASIC). Because it was so simple (200 lines of BASIC), and was published in Creative Computing in 1977, that particular root led to uncountable knock offs. (And it’s not at all surprising that many included swearing!)
I was an (adjunct) prof at Stanford for over 20 years. I taught the top level interaction analysis course - basically cognitive science applied to human interaction with complex systems, including AI based system. As soon as I saw students turning in AI papers and projects, I knew all of upper education as we know it was fucked. I retired. Education is fucked, but learning isn’t! This will be a golden age where you can learn anything you want to. If you don’t want to learn anything, you’ll be a meatbot working for those who do. Many people may be happy in that role. I know someone who is extremely happy working at as a barista. He was also happy having gone to college for a useless degree. He’s happy he did that. He tells me the things he’s learning on his own every week from AI tutors. Quantum Mechanics. People will find a way to make their way, mostly. Education as currently organized is fucked. Teachers should be there to help students learn what they want to learn (at least after elementary school, which is still important and won’t be disintermediated). Like flight instructors. People who want to learn to fly learn most of it on their own, and the flight instructor is there to help (and keep you safe at least at first, until you solo). People seek out flight instructors, and will continue to do so (at least until airplanes fly themselves - but that’s a different discussion). Teachers will become tutors. And I dare say that teachers will like it better than their current role of having to force-feed 2/3rds of a class who doesn’t want to learn. Instead they’ll enjoy helping the few students who actually care to fly to fly.
AI is great for those who want to learn. Earlier, one has to find all relevant books, search specific forums, or use google in order to find answers to questions that teachers or fellow smart-students find silly. Even if AI gives false answers, it is better than having no answer. At least, the search space to find an answer is reduced.
Yes. All of those were written in IPL well before Lisp. There were a dozen IPL-V implementations across almost every common computer of tat time. (Of course, there weren’t that many common computers! :-)
True enough that IPL inspired Lisp (along with Church’s Lambda Calculus), but, to my mind, what is interesting about IPL-* is that the first true AIs and Cognitive Models were written in it/them, esp The Logic Theorist, which was the first heuristic search program, and which actually improved upon proofs by some of the most famous logicians of the time. David Moews has made several of the original IPL Logic Theorist programs run again (although not on this 1620 platfor’. . . Yet!) :: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116935
Paul Kimpel has built a lovely web-based IBM 1620 emulator, and was able to compile and run a 1963 IPL-V compiler and runtime from U Oregon. Run it all from your browser! Execution details and project history linked from Paul’s repo: https://github.com/pkimpel/retro-1620
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