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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Episode 20: Let's Do the Time Warp! (to the "Founding" of "Artificial Intelligence"), November 6 2023
Nov 21, 2023
The hosts time travel back to the founding of artificial intelligence at Dartmouth College in 1956. They explore the grant proposal and debunk AI hype. They discuss machine learning, imagination, and the funding of self-driving cars. They also talk about understanding complex systems and biases in machine translation. Additionally, they touch on hate speech and the closure of an AI smoothie shop. Finally, they mention a failed AI-driven restaurant and a strange AI-developed Coke.
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- The podcast explores the hype surrounding the origins of artificial intelligence, highlighting the belief that machines can simulate every aspect of learning and intelligence.
- The researchers' proposals for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on AI in 1956 ranged from applying information theory and developing programming languages to investigating abstraction and randomness in AI.
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AI hype is as old as the field itself
The podcast episode discusses the origins of artificial intelligence and highlights how AI hype has been present since the field's early days.
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