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History of AI (March 22, 2023)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The History of Search Syntax

IBM had been involved in large-scale databases going back to the early 1900s with people like Herman Hollerith. IBM's early devices were tabulating machines used for the census computation and so on. The idea was somehow encode in a software system kind of the knowledge of experts, he says. But it didn't work out at the time as has been hoped,. In fact, my first company ended up as a result of venture capital pressure.

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