The Thinking Machine (Artificial Intelligence in the 1960s)

Can machines really think? Here is a series of interviews to some of the AI pioneers, Jerome Wiesner, Oliver Selfridge, and Claude Shannon. A view at the future of computer intelligence from back then...

[@skilifavas4016]

When you were debating AI before it was cool ( before Terminator ) omg these guys were in

[@StefanTheFink]

Claude Shannon, WHAT A GUY.

[@systemBuilder]

One of the guys who most recently invented an entire field of science.

[@Fractal4149]

Thank you so much for posting this. I'm a college student at Rutgers and something of an AI buff, and it's amazing to see these legendary figures speak. I'm currently studying Oliver Selfridge's Pandemonium paper, a seminal work in the history of AI.

[@eXperimentalbiOtechinc]

hows it going for you now?

[@trinityleigh2730]

It's so interesting to see where we were back then and how far we've come since

[@malindrome9055]

We have come even farther since you have commented

[@trinityleigh2730]

@@malindrome9055 wow, you're right. I don't even remember commenting this

[@Deadsea_1993]

It is important to note that they were talking about automated factory machine robots. Such as when "They will think like men".

[@tradutoraBR]

Brilliant. Thank you for sharing it!

[@hobonickel840]

What documentary is this from? I recommend the Frontline narrator's voice!

[@oldtwinsna8347]

This is more about the philosophical points and much less so about the scientific application, which had decades to go.

[@N7Sound]

The scientific application comes because of what those people discovered / created. So be thankful.

[@danielr3177]

We are closer than ever

[@ValynPerini]

@rpieracc do you have a higher resolution version of this video?

[@laughingcorpsev2024]

It's always "10. 15 years later"

[@user-221i]

It is now.

[@laughingcorpsev2024]

@@user-221i now its more like 3...5 years later

[@happytrader4519]

Elon Musk's Fully Self Driving car 😅

[@WrongTimeline]

Nice to see ole ‘Charlie Dutton’ (actor David Wayne) from The Andromeda Strain hobnobbing with real scientists.

[@abcstardust]

Thank you for posting. Does anybody know the name of the film that shows a computer which flashes the word “MAN” then flashes a Question Mark when a picture of one of the Beatles is put in?

[@pakarmytrendingvedios3500]

Did u have any draw back of AI from it's starting??

[@TimothyArends]

I have the book from 1962 that accompanied the original CBS broadcast.
Does anybody even question whether computers can think anymore? It seems with all the computers around, the fact that they can "think" in the human sense must be pretty obvious. So far, their thinking is limited, but they CAN think.

[@hiathanjerrafpusa7015]

Yes

[@robertwalker-factcheckeran2316]

Yes. They can't really think as we do. I think Roger Penrose captured it best. There is nothing there that has any understanding of truth. E.g. Alpha go - nothing there that knows what a go piece is or a game, or a computer or a human and if you changed the programming to lose every game as fast as possible, nothing there to object or care or have any interest either way.
robertwalkerdrafts.quora.com/Comment-on-Analog-and-Digital-Continuous-and-Discrete-by-Corey-Maley

[@user-kg1od9es5d]

@@robertwalker-factcheckeran2316 i dont believe humans will ever think as we do - in the same way airplanes arent flying like birds.
Ai will be made up of neural networks [much like the human brain] but actually work in a more optimal and energy efficient way. one of the blockers right now is compute and cost to compute...overtime this will fall. lets see!

[@marwin4348]

@@robertwalker-factcheckeran2316 And now that has changed, and we have machines that actually understand

[@prajwol_poudel]

Claude Shannon's saying 10-15 years cause he doesn't realize he's the 0.00001% that directly contribute to 99% of the progress.
If we had everyone doing research at the level of Claude Shanon, we'd Arnold Schwarzenegger's robot comming from the future.

[@DriveandThrive]

Could you imagine ChatGPT in that time? I doubt we’d still be alive today

[@la24dogg21]

I'm gonna ask it with reference to this vid. See if it knows.

[@Lord_LindaThePhilosopher]

Omg I you really need to to research. Ai isn't the end of humanity I HATE that people still think this. learn how it works. Learn how society ISNT STUPID and we are very much working towards Alignment.

[@FrappuccinoAlfredo]

@@Lord_LindaThePhilosopher Tell that to the hundreds of millions of people who will be out of a job.

[@thekingof21thbc]

I was thinking if I saw stark, Tony's father 😅❤

[@unknown-pr1qk]

Present Day, Present Time

[@mdyildirim]

it just took 60 years.

[@kamakazilazlow]

good men on top of there game!!!

[@kamakazilazlow]

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[@kamakazilazlow]

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[@christoforosmeziriadis7016]

Elon Musk should watch this video and learn a thing or two. Claude Shannon said within 15 years we would have a robot not far from the the robot of sci-fi, it's been almost 60years, we are still waiting

[@nonconsensualopinion]

In the full video, immediately before Dr. Shannon's comments, the MIT professor elaborates that Shannon meant automated industrial robots, not walking and talking robots. They were careful to not be misunderstood. The edit has done his comments a disservice.
ruclips.net/video/5YBIrc-6G-0/видео.html

[@ReadWithTshepho]

@@nonconsensualopinion Claude was right after all.

[@marcellom2317]

A

[@satioOeinas]

I’m sure Claude Shannon got his prediction wrong because he thought there were more people at his level. Sadly not.

[@assurali6822]

His stupidity

[@PHILD0]

3:08 ... ChatGPT says otherwise.

[@FamilatheG]

Far out

[@mistakersha]

ILL

[@wrineha2]

INI!

[@CarpenterBrother]

LLI