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Video Title: Computer Chronicles: Artificial Intelligence (1986)
Description: What is Artificial Intelligence? Does AI even exist? These are just two of the questions addressed in this episode. Topics covered include expert systems, machine vision, decision support software, natural languageprocessing, and speech recognition systems.

Hosted by Stuart Cheifet and Gary Kildall, with commentary from George Morrow.
Guests: Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley; Gary Hendrix, Symantec; S. Jerrold Kaplan, Lotus Development; Harry Tennant, Texas Instruments; and Terry Winograd, Stanford University.

Date of Video: January 2, 1986
Color. Sound. Length (min:sec): 29:24.
Copyright Info: Produced by KCSM TV, San Mateo. Available from the Internet Archive
Interesting Clips:
  • 2:17 The AI Effect
  • 3:03 SRI machine vision project
  • 5:12 ® 10:23 What is AI and what can it do
  • 6:32 NLP demo
  • 10:24 demo of Expert Mechanic and explanation of expert systems
  • 13:50 interview with Winograd about NLP and AI research funding
  • 17:47 demo of Q&A, an intelligent assistant
  • 22:35 Dreyfus contrasts expertise with competency
  • 23:54 Morrow's commentary about the AI label/name
  • 25:15 speech recognition / talk writer projects & products
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Additional episodes of Computer Chronicles are available from the Internet Archive.

Contributor: Jon Glick
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