The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of a task which it is performing and survey what it has done.

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.