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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is That a Crackpot Idea?

When you tryed to build it as when you start to actually ask questions. If put a mirror to ourselvesi so you were there in the middle of it. It seems like not many people were asking the questions that you were te tra, trying to look at this field the way you were. I was so low i when i went to get funding for this, because i needed somebody to transcribe the interviews and i needed travel expenses. The national science foundation actually said to me in plain english, hey, you're only a writer. You're not an historian of science.

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