Peter Norvig

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553 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 29 Apr

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There was much less back and forth between academics and industry than there is today.

So that's the path I took.

But then I started to realize, you know, we didn't quite have the word big data back then.

But I saw that that's the way things were going.

And I saw as a young assistant professor, I couldn't get the resources I needed.

You know, you could write a grant proposal, get a little bit of money.

get a couple of computers and a couple of grad students.

But I really couldn't get the resources to do the kind of big projects I wanted to do.

And industry was the only way to do that.

So I set out on that path.

Yeah, so it's definitely been here sort of right from the start.

So Alan Turing, one of the founders of the field, writing about it in 1956, sort of foreseeing the chatbots that we have today.

But of course, we didn't know how to build them back then, but...

It was definitely part of the vision of where we might go.

So I guess I got interested.

I was lucky that I had a high school that at that time had a computer class and also had a class in linguistics.

And I took those two classes and talked to the teachers in the classes and said, hey, it seems like there's some overlap between those two.

Can we get computers to understand English?

And they said, yeah, that's a great subject, but we can't really teach you that.

That's kind of beyond what we know how to do.

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