The Dream Machine

S1 E1

The Dream Machine — Season 1, Episode 4: The Thinking Machine

Documentary58 min1 season, 5 episodes

Episode synopsis

By the 1960s, a computer could do university-level calculus and play chess, but the search for a true thinking machine turned out to be a lot more difficult than anyone had dreamed. The history of artificial intelligence, from Minsky to neural networks. Interviews: Marvin Minsky (MIT), Hubert Dreyfus (UC Berkeley), Edward Feigenbaum (Stanford University), Hans Moravec (Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute), Doug Lenat (University of Texas, Austin), Dean Pomerleau (Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute), Terrence Sejnowski (Salk Institute)

About The Dream Machine

A five-part series about the origins, history and impact of the computer, a machine that changed the world.

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