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Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Geriatric Robot

In a book i wrote with ed fagen ba, there is a little story called the geriatric robot. It doesn't just clean you up and feed you and wheel you out into the sun. Its great advantages it listens. And it isn't hanging around to inherit your money. This is its job, and so on. Well, i would love something like that. Ie, i mean, for me, that deeply excites me. So i think there's a lot of us.

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