OpenAI's Astra Video Opens with 1979 MIT Media Lab Footage

OpenAI's Astra promo opens with footage from the 1979 MIT 'Put That There' experiment by the group that later became the MIT Media Lab, a nod that observers like @davidad quickly traced to its origin.

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