George Dyson - From Analog to Digital & Back: The View from 1946 - The Beginnings of AI

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Channel: The Artificial Intelligence Channel · 2017 · Science & Technology

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George Dyson, with rare images and documents, takes us through early analog, to digital computations, and the beginnings of Artificial Intelligence. Dyson spent three winters, starting at age 19, in a treehouse 95 feet up in a Douglas fir on the shores of Burrard Inlet in British Columbia, before settling down to become a historian of technology who has divided his time between building boats and writing books.

Recorded: April 2017

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