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Rethinking A.I.

Press release from MIT. Essentially, we want to rewind to 30 years ago and revisit some ideas that had gotten frozen,” he says, adding that the new group hopes to correct “fundamental mistakes” made in AI research over the years.

kismet, MIT

MIT Museum/Ether Dome

On a rare few hours off, I took time out to visit the MIT Museum and MGH’s Ether Dome. The former is a super journey through the 20th Century’s exponential technological developments; the latter the home of anesthesiology. The photos: with Kismet/ether dome – the painting dramatising the first experiment in anesthesiology.