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What did you find least persuasive in this week's reading?
Not "least persuasive," but at least a curious omission from Chapter 1's capsule history of AI's ups and downs ("Seasons of hope and despair") was any mention of the 1966 ALPAC report, which singlehandedly ushered in the first AI winter by trashing, unfairly IMHO, the then-nascent field of machine translation.