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Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI
Lex Fridman Podcast
Machines Who Think
In 19 79, your book, machines who think was published. In it, you interviewd some of the early ai pioneers and explored the idea that ai was born not out of maybe math and computer science, but out of myth and legend. So tell me, if you could, the story of how you first arrived at the book, the journey of a beginning to write it. I had been a novelist. And i was sitting under the portal at stanford one day the house we were renting for the summer, and i thought i should write a novel about these weird people in a i i know. Theni a, don't write a novel. Write a history.
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