I certainly know the Lisp information in this article already, but it's still a fun read. Hofstadter just has a charming way with words.
I found this bit extra amusing:
>It would be nice as well as useful if we could create an inverse operation to readers-digest-condensed-version called rejoyce that, given any two words, would create a novel beginning and ending with them, respectively - and such that James Joyce would have written it (had he thought of it). Thus execution of the Lisp statement (rejoyce 'Stately 'Yes) would result in the Lisp genie generating from scratch the entire novel Ulysses. Writing this function is left as an exercise for the reader.
It took a while, but we got there. I don't think 2024's AI is quite what he had in mind in 1983, but you have to admit that reproducing text given a little seeding is a task that quite suits the AI of today.