Professor John McCarthy
Father of AI

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An Example for Natural Language Understanding and the AI Problems it Raises

I think this 1976 memorandum is of modern interest. The problems it raises haven't been solved or even substantially reformulated.

I think this 1976 memorandum is of 1996 interest. The problems it raises haven't been solved or even substantially reformulated.

1999: Story understanding - Erik Mueller confirms my opinion that the problems of understanding the Mr. Hug story haven't been solved yet. They await researchers in the next millennium.

That's this millennium now.

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