The 1960s marked a pivotal decade for AI, fueled by massive government funding and resulting in foundational concepts like the LISP language, early systems like ELIZA and SHRDLU, and critical lessons about the "combinatorial explosion" and the power of specific knowledge.

From the Mechanical Turk hoax in 1770 to the formal coining of Artificial Intelligence in 1956, this podcast explores the foundational ideas, from symbolic logic to neural networks, that established the field of AI.