I'm John Batchewitz, Gary Ridland.

His new book, I highly recommend to all of you who see the word AI everywhere and go.

What does that mean?

AI Valley, Microsoft Google, and the trillion-dollar race to cash it.

What's bigger than a trillion?

It's that kind of scale.

To cash you in on artificial intelligence.

The 1950s, a man named Rosenblatt, has an idea. And the idea is that Isaac Asimov wasn't just making it up.

We can actually create robots that have conversations with us and are human-like, humanoid.

Rosenblatt's idea is taken up by the U.S. Navy. Why, Gary? Can we figure out what they saw in him?

Right. So, let me just to back up a little bit. You know, Frank Rosenblatt's idea was that it won't be just computers that follow instructions line by line,

but actually learn and get better with training like a human would.

And that's the foundation of today's AI revolution.

And there seems a lot of potential.

These are late 1950s.

You know, for military purposes,

maybe it could be used to read radar, you know, accurately. The post office was interested. Maybe it

could, you know, help sorting the mail. So, you know, this idea that a computer could learn with

training and get better was a really attractive idea to a lot of people.

However, he was really before his time.

He was kind of cast as a crazy guy.

And, you know, most of the computer scientists through the 50s, 60, 70s into actually the 2000s and 2010s, they thought the idea was preposterous.

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