The History of Artificial Intelligence

In the 40s, there seemed to be a whole development of people saying, you know, we're going to make electrical devices and they're going to be like brains. And I think in some sense, neural nets were perhaps the original vision for what computers might be like. The interest in building brains or something that works like the brain has waxed and wane for many decades with a period of about 20, 30 years.