Douglas Hofstadter on the state of AI today

Oh, what a treat. I just stumbled upon an interview with one of the heros of my youth, Douglas Hofstadter. His famous book Gödel, Escher, Bach fascinated me endlessly and got me interested in formal systems and artificial intelligence. In this video he is talking about how the book came to be and some comments on what he thinks about modern computational systems like ChatGPT.

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