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The Lighthill Debate (1973) - part 1 of 6
First part of a six-part recording of the 1973 Lighthill debate on AI, where Sir James Lighthill's critical report on AI research was contested by figures including McCarthy and Michie.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a historical look at the AI winter debate and a demolition of the expert systems hype.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- bilkable
- Topic
- ai history
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2021
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From the original HN conversations
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Haha, this is arguably the article in AI. Other landmark events in the field include the Dartmouth Conference, when John McCarthy named the field "Artificial Intelligence", defined the goals, and set out to achieve them, unfortunately it's not easy to point to a single paper …
AndrewOMartin on Hacker News · 2016-08
In Computing machinery and intelligence (1950)Well, there was this place called "The Turing Institute" which was in Glasgow. It was run by a very nice man called Don Michie. I met Don a handful of times, and he was extremely kind and generous to me. He worked at Bletchley Park …
sgt101 on Hacker News · 2017-08
In A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its promises
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