Steven Sinofsky

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5,566 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 4d ago

Steven Sinofsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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It was called MuMath.
And, like, you could, like, we got our calculus homework.
You marched over to the engineering library, checked out a PC disk, and then just typed in the answers to... So you don't think that...
a little different to me.
No, look, that's the debate.
I'm all in on the debate.
Here's an example of that, a Stanford example.
So during the AI winter that was the 80s, Stanford, the biggest— One of the AI winters.
Stanford was—and we have a podcast on that from 15 years ago—
One of the AI, one of the biggest things at Stanford was to combine new AI with the medical school.
And so there were all of these projects to do like medical diagnosis, chemotherapy kind of stuff.
I worked on one that was doing organic synthesis with a team at Harvard.
And all of those were sort of the earliest, like, let me turn over the decision-making.
In fact, that's the whole era of the 80s and computers were the dawn of what they used to call expert systems.
I remember them.
And so expert systems were the first time we got a taste of this debate.
I remember very well.
Your classes were all this.
It just didn't work.
Well, your classes were mostly about, like, you had a bunch of classes on this stuff.
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