AI history and machines thinking like us · Proposed air date:
An interview with John McCarthy takes Dr. Dave and Evil Steve back to the 1956 Dartmouth gathering and the origin of the term artificial intelligence. A headline about getting machines to think like people sends them through The Matrix and Terminator before they conclude that copying human thought may not demand as much intelligence as advertised.
This excerpt runs from 6:13.442 to 8:09.662 within its preserved source recording.
Proposed recording date: 2006-07-08. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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