Stop me if you've heard this one before. A big computer costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Running a special programming language fine-tuned for big AI programs...and these programs can replace human experts, process military information, and do advanced math. Sounds familiar, no? Except this all happened four decades ago. In the 1980s, a new industry of cult AI computers emerged amidst an AI boom. The largest of which generated millions of dollars, before it all came crashing down. For today's video...some say it is the finest programming environment ever created...and that its users only gave it up when PC silicon got 50,000 times faster...all we know is...it's called a LISP machine!
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