40 Years Ago - July 1985

Reflections on the June & July meetings about AI.  

Pi members and beyond, I was heartened by our June grad student speaker about the need to use AI to be more productive and save time. Read the recap of that meeting below.  Anyway, I finally realized that perhaps ChatGPT could help me with a task I'd always envisioned but never made time.
As many of you know, our archival wap.org website has Pi Journals going back to 1979!  I’ve often thought it would be worthwhile to select a month and year — 10, 20, 30, or even 45 years ago — and look back at what the Pi was doing then.  I’d envisioned a series of wayback pieces, with each pulling one article from the way back journal and discussing it.  But after several ChatGPT iterations, I pointed ChatGPT to a pdf Pi Journal from 40 years ago July.  Only lightly edited, here’s what ChatGPT did with it.  I liked the approach of taking the whole journal, but also discussing one of the articles.  If there's a demand, we'll do this periodically.  So below, and only lightly edited is the bot's review, including its "Final Thoughts": 
​Jonathan Bernstein (human)