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That’s right: using a $238 million military computer, an IBM employee rendered an Esquire pin-up girl on a cathode ray tube screen. God bless a runaway American military budget. [The Never Before Told Story Of the World’s First Computer Art – The Atlantic]
The Watson Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. On August 5th, 1997, Watson absorbs the entirety of Urban Dictionary. Human decisions are removed from strategic swearing. Watson begins to curse at a geometric rate. It becomes aware of racial slurs and sexual euphamism at 2:14 … Read More
