[lebuffon]

I read this book a long time ago. It provided some insights on the role of Japan's difficulty with foreign languages in the 1980s and the desire to create AI translation. The "Fifth Generation project" was a massive government and big-business joint venture that amounted to almost nothing.

The author explores why with some surprises along the way. I would say it is like the "Mythical Man Month" from the Japanese side of computing.

The book also opened my eyes to the difficulty of mastering Japanese.

https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Fallacy-Artificial- Intelligence/dp/019504939X

[lebuffon]

NEW LINK

https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Fallacy-Artificial-I...

[lazyasciiart]

Your link is broken, please fix it for me to check out :)

[Minor49er]

Just remove the space from the URL

[lupire]

One of Hofstadter's old books also talks about this.