The Father of the Emoticon Chases His Great White Whale

Snope says it&#x27;s false: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;glyph-notes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;fact-check&#x2F;glyph-notes&#x2F;</a>

There were emoticons in Puck magazine in the 1880s, so to suggest that someone invented the smiley face a hundred years later is kind of reaching...

I was trying to read this story with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fullhn.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fullhn.com</a>, but something was wrong with narratively.com (or fullhn) and it took me to this harrowing story instead, which I think is well worth reading - it&#x27;s at the intersection of homeless issues and juvenile justice: &quot;An American Tragedy: The Colorful Life and Shocking Death of Ovid Neal III&quot; (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25258116" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25258116</a>)

Buried under a lot of faffing about over emoticons, a lucid criticism of the research field named AI:<p>&gt;&gt; He laments that AI as a field has largely moved away from its original goal. Since the mid 1980s, the information explosion combined with the exponential growth in computing power has generated huge commercial interest in developing specialized AI technologies. An influx of money shifted research focus away from creating a general intelligence to specific statistical learning that could be used by industry.