AI section in Frank Shu's 1982 astronomy textbook reads as strikingly prescient today
kylekabasares · x · 2026-09-09
The author revisits the "Artificial Intelligence" section of The Physical Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, written in 1982 by astronomer Frank Shu while teaching at UC Berkeley, and finds its insights remarkably prescient today. A fun piece of AI history worth a skim via the linked scans.
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