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Peter ManthosinBrain LabsELIZA, the first psychiatrist-chatbotJoseph Weisenbaum’s program and the controversy it createdJun 8Jun 8
Peter ManthosinCodeXThe ‘Fourth Astronaut’: The story of the Apollo Guidance ComputerOn April 12, 1961, Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok 1 capsule, executed one orbit around the Earth in 108 minutes, in…May 24May 24
Peter ManthosinCodeXWorld3: The M.I.T. program that predicted the end of the world !In 1965, Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei (1908–1984) gave a lecture about the radical scientific and technological changes happening…Feb 21Feb 21
Peter ManthosinCodeXOut of Control: the New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World according to…In 1992, Kevin Kelly’s book ‘Out of Control: the New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World’ attempted to throw light…Jan 11Jan 11
Peter ManthosinCodeXW. Ross Ashby and the Homeostat, the first ‘Thinking Machine’The Homeostat consisted of four interconnected Royal Air Force bomb control units with inputs, feedback, and magnetically driven…Dec 19, 2023Dec 19, 2023