How AI Changed -- in a Very Big Way -- Around the Year 2000

In "Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation" (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do (2021) (Harvard University Press, 2021) on the way "Machines will RULE!" Erik Larson has founded two two DARPA-funded artificial intelligence startups. Inthe book he urges us to go back to the drawing board with AI research and development. This portion begins at 01:59 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow.