Category: Throwback Thursday
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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?
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Reading Time: 5 minutes – After 51 years of silence, the Zodiac Killer’s infamous cipher was finally cracked—with the help of AI. Discover how a blend of human intuition and machine power unlocked one of true crime’s greatest mysteries.
