[NTLK] Einstein, last call

[Michael Sheflin]

> *Michael Sheflin *mentioned how he implemented Arabic in 2008 and all
> that it took to do that, and how It took Claude maybe an hour or two.
> Not so much Claude, but an extensive database of people like Michael
> that worked those items out, providing the structure for Ai to go on.
> Michael's effort, and the effort of every programmer are part of that
> solution now.  And those efforts are still appreciated by myself and
> others in this hobby.
>
>
Slight clarification - and also, I'm an attorney and not an engineer so I
definitely did not have the ability to do it myself 18 years ago.

I discussed the *possibility* of implementing Arabic.  When I messaged the
list in 2015, nobody was interested and most likely I don't think we would
have been capable of doing so anyway. Claude did it in about an hour, using
a neural net on publicly available Arabic handwriting sources.  Claude had
no problem implementing right-to-left text output.  AI has taken over the
legal world very rapidly as well.  It's pretty scary.