the science Research Council had decided to fund one big Centre in artificial intelligence ah and looking back how was it structured this doesn't impress you now in retrospect as to what they they thought they were doing I think it was a sensible thing to do okay I think was good policy to make one really good Center mmm I think nearly all the people there believed in symbolic err good ol fact what is now called good old-fashioned symbolic AI right I think they were making a huge mistake and the government um a few years later I can't remember