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Judea Pearl Highlights Shannon's Early AI Work in Logic and Chess

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OPJudea Pearl#293Judea Pearl@YUDAPEARL

Speaking of AI, Shannon was the first to use Boolean Logic to switching networks (1936) and the first to program a computer to play chess (1948).

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QUOTE POSTJudea Pearl#293Judea Pearl@YUDAPEARL

Bravo for posting this lecture by your advisor, the late Thomas Cover, who was a good friend and a supporting colleague (we even sang and played the guitar together in one conference). Unfortunately, I've never met Claud Shannon, but I have a copy of his Master thesis (1936) where he is introducing Boolean Algebra. Bravo.

Tim GrosecloseTim Groseclose@Tim_Groseclose

@yudapearl Bravo Anthropic for naming its AI program "Claude." Possibly THE highlight of my time at Stanford was interactions with my advisor, Thomas Cover, who could be called a protege of Shannon. Here's a great video of Cover when he won the Shannon Prize. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCDHUheTN98&t=1259s

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