This short excerpt from a documentary on AI pulls together clips from a variety of 1960s interviews with some of AI's most storied pioneers, including Claude Shannon, Jerome Wiesner and Oliver Selfridge.
It's a timely look back on the ways that computer scientists and science communicators have thought about "machine intelligence" for more than 50 years. Given that current AI bungles might be murdering thousands of innocents, it's a good piece to watch as we contemplate how we got here.
(via Bruce Sterling)
