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It says "Claude Shannon" on the tin. The amount of Claude Shannon worship in YC is astounding. Shannon basically lied (possibly to himself too) about AI for ab
by thanatropism 9y ago
It says "Claude Shannon" on the tin.
The amount of Claude Shannon worship in YC is astounding. Shannon basically lied (possibly to himself too) about AI for about 15 years from 1950 on.
- matt4077 9y agoEven after reading through Shannon's Wikipedia article, and searching it for "artificial intelligence" and "1950" I have no idea what you're talking about. It appears as if Shannon created a maze-solving robot mouse with memory, and also published the basic idea for computer chess around that time. Both ideas seem fundamentally sound. And even if he had somehow been wrong on something at that stage in his life, he had basically created the science of communication single-handedly long before. Plus some minor work in cryptography.