Comment by keernan

My comment has been getting some downvotes which puzzles me.

Is the AI algorithm not essentially a lookup table of sentences containing a word and then doing some statistical analysis of all the sentences in the lookup to determine the probably of the next word (in a very simplistic analogy)?

And isn't that precisely what the word index of the the Encyclopedia provides? Look in the word index for a word, the index will direct you to every page of the 23 prior volumes where that word occurs; go to every page, find the sentences on each page containing that word; now do your analysis of the sentences found to come up with the most probable next word.

Or manually review every sentence when you are 13 in 1965 to get the same understanding.

Am I missing something?