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Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #34

Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #34

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

Machines Who Think

Pamela McCorduck

“in 1979 your book machines who think was published in it you interview some of the early AI pioneers”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

The Fifth Generation

Pamela McCorduck and Edward Feigenbaum

“her books include machines who think in 1979 the fifth generation in 1983 with Edie Feigenbaum”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified

The Edge of Chaos

Pamela McCorduck

“you've written the novel edge of chaos but it's inspired by the ideas of complexity”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guest

The Futures of Women

Pamela McCorduck and Nancy Ramsey

“you and Nancy Ramsay talk about four possible futures right of women in science and tech”— Lex Fridman

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

BookReferenced

Computers and Thought

Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman

“I had worked on a book edited by Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman called computers and thought it was the first textbook of readings of AI”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

“it's the Frankenstein idea yes the annotated Frankenstein on my coffee table is this tremendous novel it really is just beautifully perceptive”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

The Iliad

Homer

“if you read Homer Homer has robots in the Iliad and a classical scholar was pointing out to me”— guest
BookReferenced

The Odyssey

Homer

“you just read The Odyssey The Odyssey is full of robots it is I said yeah how do you think Odysseus's ship gets from place”— guest
BookReferencedISBN verified

Bang the Drum Slowly

Mark Harris

“mark was most famous then for a novel called bang the drum slowly which was about baseball”— guest