https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/28/artificial-intelligence-origins-turing-to-chatgpt > Today’s poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming engines > In the winter of 1958, a 30-year-old psychologist named Frank Rosenblatt was en route from Cornell University to the Office of Naval Research in Washington DC when he stopped for coffee with a journalist.