Noam Chomsky called AI "a false promise," as it builds nothing but "a lumbering statistical engine," quite unlike the human mind. Yosef Grodzinsky, writing at 08:28 PM on June 30 2026 IDT, notes there is hardly any discussion between thinkers, scientists and techies, and that dialogue might harbor hope for joint progress. The understanding that savants should communicate with fabricants led to the establishment of the Lunar Society in Birmingham, England, in 1765, as told by Joel Mokyr, the American Israeli economic historian and Nobel laureate. For several decades, a small group of natural philosophers and industrialists held monthly meetings on full moon nights to exchange ideas about science and technology.