# The Mind Machines **Entity class:** Television program episode ## Definition *The Mind Machines* was a [[wiki/NOVA (television series)|NOVA]] episode originally broadcast on March 22, 1978. [[wiki/Arthur C. Clarke|Arthur C. Clarke]] discussed the possibility that early [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|artificial-intelligence]] research might eventually lead to machines that outpace their creators. PBS’s archive uses the plural title *The Mind Machines*; a later PBS clip description calls it *The Mind Machine*. ## Source record - **Original broadcast:** March 22, 1978, according to PBS’s Season 5 archive. - **Series:** [[wiki/NOVA (television series)|NOVA]]. - **Producer:** [[wiki/WGBH|WGBH]], identified by PBS as the program’s producer for its network. - **Broadcaster:** [[wiki/PBS|PBS]]. - **Participant documented here:** [[wiki/Arthur C. Clarke|Arthur C. Clarke]]. ## Relationships - **Publication relationship:** A 1978 [[wiki/NOVA (television series)|NOVA]] program produced within the [[wiki/WGBH|WGBH]] public-media operation and broadcast by [[wiki/PBS|PBS]]. - **Interpretive relationship:** Clarke’s forecast addresses [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] as a possibility, while [[articles/Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s|Modern Artificial Intelligence in the 1970s]] documents the technical field during the same decade. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “I think that what we're doing now is in a sense, creating our own successors. We have seen the first crude beginnings of artificial intelligence.” > **— Arthur C. Clarke**, *NOVA, The Mind Machines, originally broadcast March 22, 1978* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Humanity Is Creating Its Own AI Successors by Arthur C. Clarke|Humanity Is Creating Its Own AI Successors by Arthur C. Clarke]] ## Sources - [PBS NOVA Season 5 program archive](https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/listseason/05.html) - [PBS NOVA Clarke interview clip and transcript](https://www.pbs.org/video/sir-arthur-c-clarkes-vision-of-the-computer-dominated-future-nqfzwg/)