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History of AI (March 22, 2023)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The History of Computers

From the very early days of computers, people had the idea that computers were somehow intelligent like brains. I mean, in computers as a practical matter, they were first really used more for their database qualities. But by the time there were personal computers at the beginning of the 1980s and the 1970s, none of those things looked very intelligent like they didn't look very mind-like.

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