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A brief, incomplete, and mostly wrong history of robotics

(An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages)

The twin values of casual racism and investor fraud would later be codified into the “AI startup common practice” of using overseas call centers to fake artificial intelligence until the founders run out of money. After 32 consecutive hours of sitting on its favorite armchair and demanding a brandy, Westinghouse Electric decides that perhaps they should have made a replacement for the modern woman instead, but that project is shuttered before it can really begin due to the outbreak of World War II. Google founder Larry Page allegedly emails Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert telling him to stop leaking their super secret robots on YouTube and that his trademark Hawaiian shirts don’t look as good as he thinks they do.

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