Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #34

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

August 23, 2019

Duration

1h 0m

Channel

Lex Fridman Podcast

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Lex Fridman

  host

• Pamela McCorduck

  guest

• Narrator

  other

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Pamela McCorduck, Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #34 explores pamela McCorduck recalls AI’s mythic roots and scientific audacity Pamela McCorduck, author of *Machines Who Think*, reflects on the early days of artificial intelligence, when the field’s founders saw themselves as launching something historically important despite being scientific outsiders. She traces AI’s roots beyond math and computer science into ancient myths, religious tensions, literature, and long-standing human desires to create intelligence outside the human brain.

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