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A 2026 blog post revisits M.H. van Emden’s 1982 vision of “Computer-Aided Thought” and argues that today’s conversational LLMs fail to deliver the structured, logic-based, friction-generating interlocutor he envisioned.
The article reflects on the history of text generation, drawing parallels between modern LLMs like GPT-4 and earlier concepts from Jorge Luis Borges and Claude Shannon. It explores how Shannon's probabilistic experiments and Borges' 'Library of Babel' metaphor help clarify fundamental questions about the nature of generated text and data structure.