Title
Reddy, Raj oral history, part 2 of 2
Catalog Number
102792299
Type
Moving image
Description
In our second interview with CHM 2021 Fellow Raj Reddy, we discussed such varied topics as the definition of “computer science,” institutional overlap between Computer Science and other disciplines such as operations research, the institutional development of the CMU School of Computer Science and its component departments, the Stanford Robotic Arm and its demonstration in the “Hear! Here!” video, the roots of Hearsay within the knowledge-based AI systems paradigm, the differences in architecture between Hearsay’s Blackboard model, Dragon and SPHINX’s statistical system, and Harpy’s improvement on Dragon’s real-time performance by using a good-enough searching strategy (Beam Search), the hardware and languages these speech recognition systems used, the ethics of autonomous systems, the DARPA Grand Challenge for autonomous vehicles, the potential for AI to serve as disaster warning systems, various Robotics Institute faculty, the Singularity, the corporate fate of Dragon Systems, the expert systems startup Carnegie Group that Reddy started with Jaime Carbonell, John McDermott and Mark Fox, Raj’s former students at Microsoft, semantics, the definition of “understanding,” knowledge representation, Doug Lenat’s Cyc, artificial general intelligence, optimistic claims in AI, Reddy’s view of Hubert Dreyfus’s critiques, Newell and Simon’s physical symbol system hypothesis, symbolic AI’s historical attitude towards perceptrons and neural networks, and Reddy’s ecumenical support of students’ projects he may not have agreed with. Reddy recites a Telugu poem to close the interview.
Date
2021-11-23
Participants
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Hsu, Hansen, Interviewer
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Plutte, Jon, Camera person
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Plutte, Max, Camera person
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Reddy, Raj, Interviewee
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, CA
Duration
02:57:20
Format
MOV
Category
Oral history
Collection Title
CHM Oral History Collection
Credit
Computer History Museum
