alt Hacker NewsWhen we visited some of the 1970s 'heros' of the MIT AI Lab, we were told the informal story behind SHRDLU, the AI living in a PDP-10 3D world. How this graphical AI triggered the first AI Summer --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZGQcJVdjj8
-- and as it fell short of first impressions, perhaps the first winter too?
Fun times, gettin' in early on the "tech scene" and watching it progress so quickly (yet at the same time so slowly in many ways compared to how it could have gone had greed and ignorance not held it back by decades). :)