Hesse's Three Readers x the History of AI

Re :  https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/07/11/hermann-hesse-types-of-readers/

This is a good lens, to discuss how AI are trained. The first type of reader below, is like a machine that follows instructions. The second type of reader, is like a machine that wants to gain meta-cognition of the instructor. The third type of reader, is like a machine which doesn't care about the instructions, or the instructor, and simply assumes the text as a source of inspiration.

So it turns out that in the history of AI development, we've kinda gone from building machines that are like the first type of reader, to building machines that are like the third type of reader. The entire field of building machines which are like the second type of reader has been somewhat out of the spotlight ... perhaps because, most laypeople don't actually believe that machines ARE people. 

Anyway, the second type of reader is a very important pattern, as that's much of what meat people do on a daily basis. I look forward to machines learning how to do that more ... and to the programmers who will so build such machines.