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hollerith
on Sept 30, 2024
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Do AI companies work?
Lisp's inventor, John McCarthy, was an AI researcher. (The US government started funding AI research in the 1950s, expecting progress to be much faster than it actually was.)
RHSeeger
on Sept 30, 2024
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When I studied AI in grad school (decades ago), most of the classes were done in Lisp.
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