This Month In the History of Information Technologies

This Month In the History of Information Technologies

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is So 1955

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is So 1955

The quintessential brain looked very much like an opaque, featureless bladder

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is So 1955
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Today in 1955, Time Magazine published the cover story “Brain Builders”:

"At last I came under a huge archway and beheld the Grand Lunar exalted on his throne in a blaze of incandescent blue . . . The quintessential brain looked very much like an opaque, featureless bladder with dim, undulating ghosts of convolutions writhing visibly within . . . Tiers o…

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