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I listen to the advent of computing podcast and enjoyed the ones where it explored why Lisp is associated with AI. And how IPL predated lisp and influenced it.
by account-5 4y ago
I listen to the advent of computing podcast and enjoyed the ones where it explored why Lisp is associated with AI. And how IPL predated lisp and influenced it.
- kazinator 4y agoThe historic Lisp-AI connection is well articulated in the Introduction chapter of the Winston and Horn Lisp book. It captures the attitude of that time that some Lisp people had as being in a position of supremacy in that area. In the 1981 edition, that chapter has an outright section titled, in bold: Symbol Manipulation is Needed to Make Computers Intelligent followed by a half dozen bulleted paragraphs why. and then LISP is the Right Symbol-Manipulation Language to Learn. People interested in AI would be exposed to texts like this and end up believing some of the stuff.