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John McCarthy

Mentioned in 8 analyzed podcast episodes across 7 shows

Episode Appearances

The a16z Show

The a16z Show · Apr 3, 2026

Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent Breakthroughs

Inventor of AI field and Dartmouth conference organizer; passed away without seeing AI breakthroughs

AI Winters and Boom-Bust CyclesNeural Networks and 80-Year Research TrajectoryLarge Language Models and Reasoning Breakthroughs
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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Apr 3, 2026

Marc Andreessen introspects on The Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"

Inventor of field and Dartmouth Conference organizer; passed away before seeing AI breakthroughs

AI Scaling Laws and Moore's Law AnalogyLLM Reasoning Breakthroughs (O1, OpenClaw)Agent Architecture and Unix Philosophy
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Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC · Mar 11, 2026

Talking Dateline: The Professor & The Poet

Montgomery County state's attorney (formerly line prosecutor) who worked with Josh Mankiewicz during his reporting career

Intimate Partner Violence and HomicidePredatory Behavior Patterns in AbusersEmotional Manipulation and Romantic Coercion
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Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC · Mar 10, 2026

The Professor & The Poet

Montgomery County State's Attorney who prosecuted Jorge Landeros and maintained case files for 10 years before arrest.

Financial fraud and investment scams targeting educated professionalsIntimate partner violence and strangulation as murder methodDNA evidence collection and forensic analysis in homicide investigations
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Tech Won't Save Us

Tech Won't Save Us · Jan 8, 2026

We All Suffer from OpenAI’s Pursuit of Scale w/ Karen Hao [Replay]

1956 Dartmouth professor who coined term 'artificial intelligence' as marketing strategy for automata research

OpenAI's Strategic Evolution and Mission DriftScaling Paradigm in Generative AI DevelopmentLabor Exploitation in Content Moderation and Data Preparation
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Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson

Digital Disruption with Geoff Nielson · Nov 24, 2025

How AI Will Save Humanity: Creator of The Last Invention Explains

Early AI researcher; founded MIT AI lab; part of 1960s optimism about achieving AI in decades

AI Existential Risk and SafetyArtificial General Intelligence (AGI) Development TimelineAI Regulation and Governance
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The Last Invention

The Last Invention · Oct 2, 2025

EP 2: The Signal

Dartmouth Summer Program organizer who coined the term 'Artificial Intelligence' and founded MIT's AI lab.

Alan Turing's Contributions to AI PhilosophyWWII Enigma Codebreaking and Machine Intelligence OriginsDartmouth Summer Program (1956) and AI Field Founding
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Dwarkesh Podcast

Dwarkesh Podcast · Sep 26, 2025

Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end

Cited for definition of intelligence as 'the computational part of the ability to achieve goals'

Reinforcement Learning FundamentalsLarge Language Models vs. Experience-Based LearningWorld Models and Transition Models
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