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Posted on 08/27/2025 10:42:16 AM PDT by johnnygeneric
While in college back in the mid-1970s, I wrote a short story on AI. I give a little background on the early mini-computers I operated with a photo of the Honeywell H200 I took.
I don't have the original short story anymore but I wrote a pretty good summary highligting the major theme.
Essentially, a computer operator was given the opportunity to train a computer as it discovers the world and asks questions.
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That was pretty good.
AI of the 70s/80s/90s and even 2000s was a lot different from the AI of today. A single breakthough paper from Google (’Attention is all you need’) change the course of AI. It was a quantum jump.
Good story!
Prolog was the AI language I used in the 80’s.
Thanks, reed13k!!
Much appreciated, Jamestown1630
libh8er, I crack up everytime I think of the Karl Maldin movie “Billion Dollar Brain...” LOL!!! Whenever I watch an old movie that ultimately shows a bunch of blinking lights, I yell out loud to the family “That’s a computer! Do you want to know how I know??” Nobody ever asks me “How??” But I telll them anyway.
Wow, obviously you were so ahead of your time which is why I must assume you were picked up in a government van and whisked away until the time was right to release you into the emerging AI landscape you “prophesied”.
How do you feel now?
Lost in space was my first encounter with AI in the 1950s.
Barbarella (1968) is broadened by understanding.
Terminator completed the understandig. Cyberdyne lives.
A good but underrated movie.
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