#Herbert Simon

The audacious, exhilarating, ultimately tragic story of the AI optimists of the 1960s — the people who genuinely believed that machine intelligence was years away, who made predictions that have made them famous for being wrong, and who were right about the destination even as they were spectacularly wrong about the distance.

The Logic Theorist, the General Problem Solver, the cognitive revolution, and a Nobel Prize. The most consequential scientific partnership in the history of AI — two men who were convinced they had found the key to human intelligence, built programs that demonstrated it, and spent the rest of their careers working out what they had actually discovered.