The Joy of A.I.

Jim Al-Khalili de-myths any dystopian science fiction view of a ‘war between AI and humanity’ as he explores it’s origins in the mid-1950s with the first ever AI programme created by Herbert Simon and Alan Newell (who went on to win the Turing Award in 1970) called the Logic Theorist.

He later enjoys a conversation with a chatbot, which is hungry to talk and have conversation.

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