[hprotagonist]

I think so. Primarily due to Djikstra's anti-anthropomorphic stance, which is very important here.

1. as the other poster to you noted, people are more apt to conflate "strong AI" with what we're actually doing with tensorflow, leading to very weird overreactions that aren't germane.

2. just as importantly, developers who believe this line of thinking are biased against a more correct understanding of their code, which makes debugging much more difficult and prevents advances in the underlying technology.

The implied abstraction ... is however beyond the computing scientist imbued with the operational approach that the anthropomorphic metaphor induces. In a very real and tragic sense he has a mental block: his anthropomorphic thinking erects an insurmountable barrier between him and the only effective way in which his work can be done well.