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Gil: Major open-source technologies historically require giant corporate backers
“Almost every single major open source company has had a giant, ah, institutional backer. IBM was the biggest funder of Linux in the nineties as a counterbalance to Microsoft. And the biggest funders of all the open source browsers are Apple and Google with Web…”
Fry: IBM Deep Blue introduced deliberate delays to simulate human thinking
“The IBM team deliberately coded their machine so that the way that it worked for you would sort of search for solutions. And depending on how long that search would take, it would be how quickly the answer came back, but they deliberately coded it so that some…”
Domingos: AI Self-Play Dates Back to Arthur Samuel's 1950s Checkers System
“This is actually a very, very old idea in machine learning. It's one of the oldest ideas. It goes all the way back to the fifties. And this researcher at IBM called Arthur Samuel, who actually wrote the first machine learning system to learn to play a game. An…”