McCarthy took the term AI from Edmond Hamilton's 1951 "Moon of the Unforgotten" which was part of the Captain Future series.

h/t @BergsonsGhost

Aim to do more impossible things before breakfast than most people do all day

This is peak academic. You may not like it...

My own neuroboros

Pamela McCorduck at her apt on 5th Ave in Pittsburgh as she started conducting an oral history of AI leading to the best book ever written (or ever to be written) on the topic.

This chapter looks like an 80s music video

Soviet Cybernetics

A.I. is a small subset of Cybernetics

We can, and will, be doing so much more

Reticular theory of the brain being wrong does not preclude reticular theory in part of the brain being important.

Low key the current problem with everything

Speaking of Beer

Text books need to get back to having this sort of page break

The end of McCulloch's bibliography blending seamlessly into a definition of Holism via the I Ching is not an accident

@tinycrops #1 spot is not up for debate.

Wiener's Teleology persists

Choose your poison

Pamela McCorduck around the time she was helping to put together the first AI textbook (Computers & Thought) while an undergrad at Berkeley in the early 60s

The woman who saved AI

"What's in a name? From Norbert Wiener's Teleology to Artificial Intelligence"

For those interested in my teleology-cybernetics-S/AI explorations, I have a talk upcoming at SCiOs UK virtual meeting 16 Nov

systemspractice.org/events/scio-uk…

Reflections on my journey so far. What a long, strange loop it has been.

Put simply