Reanimation of the original Logic Theorist, the first AI, in IPL-V [video]

by abrax3141on 4/28/2025, 3:33 PMwith 6 comments

by pvgon 4/28/2025, 3:52 PM

The linked github repo for an easier-to-skim start https://github.com/jeffshrager/IPL-V

by kjander79on 4/28/2025, 4:26 PM

This is the Logic Theorist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Theorist

I love Simon's anecdote of using his wife and children as the stack as he developed IPS.

This eventually was replaced by GPS, which has a good description in Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Programming, here: https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp

by jmounton 4/29/2025, 2:22 AM

Really exciting to see so many of the early systems revived. Eliza, Logic Theorist, SHRDLU ( https://hci.stanford.edu/winograd/shrdlu/ , I had thought this one was lost). Any other favorites?

by jasonhemannon 4/30/2025, 12:36 AM

This video is charming