Sir Clive Sinclair on AI, from 2006
Sir Clive Sinclair on AI, from 2006 Rob Beschizza 2:11 pm Thu Oct 1, 2026 Sinclair in 2006. Screenshot: BBC News In 2006, The BBC reviewed predictions about robotics and AI made in the 1980s. Now, another 20 years later, we can reappraise its appraisal.
- ▪Sir Clive Sinclair on AI, from 2006 Rob Beschizza 2:11 pm Thu Oct 1, 2026 Sinclair in 2006.
- ▪Screenshot: BBC News In 2006, The BBC reviewed predictions about robotics and AI made in the 1980s.
- ▪Now, another 20 years later, we can reappraise its appraisal.
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| Publication time | Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:11:15 +0000 |
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Sir Clive Sinclair on AI, from 2006 Rob Beschizza 2:11 pm Thu Oct 1, 2026 Sinclair in 2006. Screenshot: BBC News In 2006, The BBC reviewed predictions about robotics and AI made in the 1980s. Now, another 20 years later, we can reappraise its appraisal. When Will Intelligent Machines Take Over?The segment features Sir Clive Sinclair, icon of early home computing, who plainly claims that the endgame of computing technology is AI. In elaborating the mundane specifics, though, he distinguished himself from the segment's "robot armies" tone: "Education, so that you have an individualized tutor, medicine, an invidual at-home-doctor. All the things that are expensive today because they require human brains could be cheap tomorrow because they require machine brains.
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