BBC Horizon, 1970. "we are on the road to producing something dangerous."
the finale of the legendary film on machine intelligence. in 1970 scientists were already asking a question that still feels uneasy today: if an intelligent machine makes a mistake - do you punish it?
first they show that even thinking reduces to a few simple steps. then they ask the real question: can a machine create? a computer proves a theorem beautifully and stages a dance - but is that real creativity, or do we just see it that way?
then a thought that hasn't aged a day: "we are, after all, a program too." if intelligence and even personhood are understandable processes, the line between human and machine thins.
14 minutes after which the "can AI really think" debate will sound half a century olde
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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.
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