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Inversing AI

On the Personal Politics of AI

Nitzan Hermon

The field of AI dates back to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, but to keep this more current and less abstract, I will start this story with MIT and early-day Silicon Valley.

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Marvin Minsky (1927–2016) and John McCarthy (1927–2011) founded MIT’s CSAIL Lab1 and are responsible for many of the field’s foundations, including LISP2 and early attempts at building robots and intelligence systems.

The AI Way of Looking at Intelligence

The Linguistic Approach of Looking at Computers

In comparison, Alan Kay, Douglas Engelbart (1925–2013), and many other colleagues have been drawing attention to learning systems composed of people and machines.

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