Quote Investigator on May 4, 2010* —
"QI has traced the core of the quotation
to the work of an early researcher in
artificial intelligence, Anthony Oettinger,
who was trying to get a computer to
manipulate the English language."
See as well Oettinger in 1963.
"And that was the state of the art."
— Adapted from Stephen Sondheim
* Cf. this journal on that date.
… Suggests the word dreamlogic. And so …
"You are getting sleepy, very sleepy …"
"In this state of free-association, each new thought
resembles or overlaps or somehow connects-to
the previous thought. As our alertness continues to fall —
as we continue to grow more tired — we lose contact with
external reality.
'The sweetness/ of the gentle world you had made for him
dissolving beneath/ his drowsy eyelids, into the foretaste of
sleep — .' (Rilke, transl. Stephen Mitchell.) Eventually we
sleep and dream."
— Edge.org, "Dream-logic, the Internet and Artificial Thought,"
by David Gelernter [7.7.10]
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