An AI conversation older than me (we just won't say by how much)

I’ve been meaning to post this video, "The Thinking Machine," an episode of CBS’s Tomorrow series made in cooperation with MIT, hosted by David Wayne.

It’s a fascinating look at how people were discussing artificial intelligence in the early sixties. There’s a lot to consider here, but for me the most interesting part may be how little attitudes and expectations have changed.

I’ll probably get some pushback on this, but I suspect that if you went back to 1961 with a version of ChatGPT and showed it to the people in this video, they would be greatly impressed, but if you asked them to guess how long this development took, most would guess substantially less than sixty years.





For camp value, you should definitely check out the script “written” by a computer and featuring veteran character actor Jack Gilford.