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90 seconds with John McCarthy. Transcribed on 25 September 2026 using automatic language detection.
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Speaker A · 0s
Why don't you tell us something about what you think the lasting contributions of the Stanford AI Lab are? What are the most significant things done there?
Speaker B · 9s
Well, that's a hard question. One of the things that I wanted to do when I established that lab was to justify having what was in those days a large computer. And the other thing that I thought was how vision should be done. and that vision should be done as an aid to being able to manipulate things. So we built a hand-eye system, and we were about the first to do that with a computer. There's my own work, which has to do with common sense expressed in languages of mathematical logic.
Speaker A · 48s
In 1962, you came out to California, and I think it could be argued that your arrival in the Bay Area has had as much importance for the establishment of Silicon Valley as the somewhat more celebrated arrival of Shockley or the return of Hewlett and Packard. Can you tell us something about why you chose to come out to Stanford in 1962 and what it was like when you arrived?
Speaker B · 75s
I think that exaggerates my importance quite a lot. But I was very surprised when George Forsythe, who was planning to have a computer science department, called me up at MIT And
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Interviewer · 0:00
Why don't you tell us something about what you think the lasting contributions of the Stanford AI Lab are? What are the most significant things done there?
John McCarthy · 0:09
Well, that's a hard question. One of the things that I wanted to do when I established that lab was to justify having what was in those days a large computer. And the other thing that I thought was how vision should be done, and that vision should be done as an aid to being able to manipulate things. So we built a hand-eye system, and we were about the first to do that with a computer.
John McCarthy · 0:40
There's my own work, which has to do with common sense expressed in languages of mathematical logic.
Interviewer · 0:48
In 1962, you came out to California, and I think it could be argued that your arrival in the Bay Area has had as much importance for the establishment of Silicon Valley as the somewhat more celebrated arrival of Shockley or the return of Hewlett and Packard. Can you tell us something about why you chose to come out to Stanford in 1962 and what it was like when you arrived?
John McCarthy · 1:15
I think that exaggerates my importance quite a lot. But I was very surprised when George Forsythe, who was planning to have a computer science department, called me up at MIT And
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Speaker A
これは私が小さい時に村のモヘというおじいさんから聞いたお話です。昔は私たちの村の近くの中山というところに小さなお城があって、中山様というお殿様がおられたそうです。その中山から少し離れた山の中にゴンギツネという狐がいました。ゴンは一人ぼっちの小狐で、下のいっぱい茂った森の中に穴を掘って住んでいました。そして夜でも昼でもあたりの村へ出てきていたずらばかりしました。畑へ入って芋を掘り散らしたり、菜種柄の干してあるのへ火をつけたり、百姓屋の裏手に吊るしてあるトンガラシをむしり取って行ったり。いろんなことをしました。ある秋のことでした。二三日雨が降り続いたその間、ゴンは外へも出られなくて穴の中にしゃがんでいました。