Category: Throwback Thursday
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Reading Time: 12 minutes – From ancient shamans to modern AI, explore humanity’s quest for healing! Dive into the fascinating story of MYCIN, the 1970s AI doctor that was brilliant, accurate, yet never fully adopted. Discover why this groundbreaking tech faced unexpected human hurdles.
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Reading Time: 8 minutes – Step into the past with Asimov’s “Robbie,” a timeless tale of a girl and her robot nanny. It’s a heartwarming adventure that sparked profound questions about human-AI connection, prejudice, and what it truly means to love. Discover how this classic sci-fi story resonates in our AI-driven world.
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Reading Time: 15 minutes – Before silicon chips, ancient myths explored AI. From Hephaestus’s intelligent golden maidens to Talos, the bronze guardian, and Pygmalion’s love-infused statue, humanity’s quest to create artificial life is a story as old as imagination itself.
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Reading Time: 8 minutes – Uncover the fascinating tale of Lisp Machines: specialized supercomputers built solely for early AI. Learn why these expensive, powerful machines ultimately vanished, yet left a lasting legacy on computing and AI development. A true Throwback Thursday for tech history!
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Reading Time: 7 minutes – In 1983, a Soviet officer ignored his AI system’s nuclear alert—and saved the world. As AI invades modern warfare, his story forces us to ask: Can machines make moral decisions, or are we losing the human judgment we can’t afford to automate?
