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"...AI is really unusual as a field because it's named after its aspirational objective that has not, as yet, been reached. It's kind of like if economics had been named 'universal prosperity'..." Intersting interview with historian of technology Thomas Haigh (whose been serializing a history of AI in CACM recently) about his forthcoming "short history" of AI as a brand. https://athenaeum.vt.domains/peoplesandthings/2025/12/08/thomas-haigh-on-the-history-of-ai-as-a-brand/