{"id":5069,"date":"2019-08-23T21:49:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T18:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2019-09-07T18:14:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T15:14:26","slug":"machines-who-think-and-the-early-days-of-artificial-intelligence-pamela-mccorduck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newworldai.com\/machines-who-think-and-the-early-days-of-artificial-intelligence-pamela-mccorduck\/","title":{"rendered":"Machines Who Think and the Early Days of Artificial Intelligence &#8211; Pamela McCorduck"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Lex Fridman, a postdoctoral associate at the MIT AgeLab, had a conversation with\u00a0writer Pamela McCorduck who has written on the history and philosophical significance of artificial intelligence, the future of engineering, and the role of women and technology.<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i6rnzk8VU24\" width=\"760\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Pamela McCorduck is an author who has written on the history and philosophical significance of artificial intelligence, the future of engineering, and the role of women and technology. Her books include Machines Who Think in 1979, The Fifth Generation in 1983 with Ed Feigenbaum who is considered to be the father of expert systems, the Edge of Chaos, The Futures of Women, and more. Through her literary work, she has spent a lot of time with the seminal figures of artificial intelligence, includes the founding fathers of AI from the 1956 Dartmouth summer workshop where the field was launched.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Source:\u00a0<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCSHZKyawb77ixDdsGog4iWA\">Lex Fridman<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lex Fridman, a postdoctoral associate at the MIT AgeLab, had a conversation with\u00a0writer Pamela McCorduck who has written on the history and philosophical significance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[459,1368],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.2.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Machines Who Think and the Early Days of Artificial Intelligence - 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