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Artificial Creatures in Fiction
- The podcast host mentions several examples of artificial creatures from mythology and fiction.
- These include Hephaestus's robots, the mechanical Turk, and characters like Frankenstein and HAL 9000.
History of AI
- AI, while seemingly new, has roots in ancient mythology and Alan Turing's work in the 1950s.
- The term "artificial intelligence" was coined by John McCarthy at a 1956 conference.
Classical AI and its Limitations
- Classical AI relied on pre-programmed rules, an approach now known as "GOFAI".
- This approach proved impractical due to the sheer volume of rules required for real-world scenarios.