From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to All on Sat Apr 15 05:07:13 2023
A very large artificial-intelligence system (goes the story) had been built for the military to help in long-range policy planning; financed by ARPA, with people from M.I.T., Stanford and so on.
"The system is now ready to answer questions," said the spokesman for the project.
A four-star general bit off the end of a cigar, looked whimsically at his comrades and said:
"Ask the machine this: Will it be Peace or War?"
The clerk-typist translated this into the query language and typed it in.