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History of Science & Technology Q&A (June 4, 2025)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Reflections on Cybernetics and AI Evolution

This chapter explores the history of cybernetics, focusing on its origins in the 1950s aimed at understanding brain function and creating robots. It also shares personal experiences connected to expert systems and the authors' venture, Inference Corporation, while reflecting on past and current AI trends and the lessons learned from them.

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