Aftonbladet: När hedern är viktigast
När det bjöds in till ännu ett stormöte i Storuman i lördags lockade annonsen med att svenska staten inspireras av Robert Mugabe i sin iver att konfiskera privata marker.
Over the holidays 50 years ago, two scientists hatched artificial intelligence
Fifty years ago, Herbert A. Simon and Allen Newell had a Christmas break story that would top them all.
“Over the Christmas holiday,” Dr. Simon famously blurted to one of his classes at Carnegie Institute of Technology, “Al Newell and I invented a thinking machine.”
It was another way of saying that they had invented artificial intelligence — in fact, the only way of saying it in the winter of 1955-56 because no one had gotten around to inventing the term “artificial intelligence.”
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