Richard M. Stallman Has Published AI Memos Since 1980 (45 Years Ago)
Back when the term AI actually meant something (not "I scrape the Web and then parrot or fuse together bits of it")
Browsing AI Memos (1959 - 2004) from MIT, a certain "Stallman, Richard M." (back in July 1980) published this paper. "A Stack is a very efficient way of allocating and deallocating memory, but it works only with a restricted pattern of usage. Garbage collection is completely flexible but comparatively costly," he said. There's a PDF version and PostScript version. The research was funded by "the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defence" (at the MIT AI Lab). It talks about Lisp:
What they did in the Lab: (this mentions Sussman, who was mentioned by Stallman some months ago - an interview with Manuel Cuda - in order to explain what AI meant and how far back it goes)
A CIA joke:
Nearly half a century passed. Little has changed. The Board of the FSF today:
The Stallman paper from 1980:
This was an example of actual AI. Not what the media nowadays calls "AI". █