Marvin Minsky’s Vision of the Future - The New Yorker

archive.today webpage capture Saved from no other snapshots from this url 26 Jan 2016 01:42:46 UTC All snapshots from host www.newyorker.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee Profiles DECEMBER 14, 1981 ISSUE A.I. BY JEREMY BERNSTEIN Share Tweet TABLE OF CONTENTS CREDIT PHOTOGRAPH BY LEONARD MCCOMBE / THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION / GETTY In July of 1979, a computer program called BKG 9.8—the creation of Hans Berliner, a professor of computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University, in Pittsburgh—played the winner of the world backgammon championship in Monte Carlo. The program was run on a large computer at Carnegie-Mellon that was connected by satellite to a robot in Monte Carlo. The robot, named Gammonoid, had a visual-display backgammon board on its chest, which exhibited its moves and those of its opponent, Luigi Villa, of Italy, who by beating all his human challengers a short while before had won the right to play against Gammonoid. The stake

archive.today webpage capture Saved from no other snapshots from this url 26 Jan 2016 01:42:46 UTC All snapshots from host www.newyorker.com WebpageScreenshot sharedownload .zipreport bug or abuseBuy me a coffee Profiles DECEMBER 14, 1981 ISSUE A.I. BY JEREMY BERNSTEIN Share Tweet TABLE OF CONTENTS CREDIT PHOTOGRAPH BY LEONARD MCCOMBE / THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION / GETTY In July of 1979, a computer program called BKG 9.8—the creation of Hans Berliner, a professor of computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University, in Pittsburgh—played the winner of the world backgammon championship in Monte Ca