DiKrass -X- (@Di_Krass_) “BBC Horizon, 1970. the legendary episode on machine intelligence. half a century” — TopicDigg

BBC Horizon, 1970. the legendary episode on machine intelligence. half a century ago people confided in a computer "therapist," and a scientist was already describing a machine you "don't program at all - you give it autonomy and let it rip." this isn't our time. this is 1970. the film shows a computer learning to see, to plan an action, and to understand language. and how it trips over simple sentences a human never would. 55 years have passed, and we still can't define intelligence, still fear losing control, and still don't understand ourselves well enough to explain it to a machine. only the hardware got better. 06:09, a line that hasn't aged: "if we can't tell a machine how to do it, it's because we don't understand ourselves." 13:52, a young man pours his heart out to a computer therapist. 16 minutes after which today's "AI breakthrough" will look like an old, familiar conversation. Follow me to know more. Save the post so you don't lose.