FastCompany magazine editor and Slashdot reader harrymcc writes: On the night of October 26, 1960, CBS aired a special — coproduced with MIT — about an emerging field of technology called ‘artificial intelligence.’ It featured demos — like a checkers-playing computer and one that wrote scripts for TV westerns — along with sound bits from leading scientists on the question of whether machines would ever think. It was well reviewed at the time and then mostly forgotten. But it’s available on YouTube, and surprisingly relevant to today’s AI challenges, 59 years later.
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