MIT Media Lab AI Pioneer Pattie Maes Discusses Early Recommendation Engine Research

The passage provides a nostalgic overview of Pattie Maes' work on early AI recommendation systems at MIT's Media Lab. It contains no specific allegations, financial details, or connections to powerful Pattie Maes led AI research at MIT Media Lab in the 1990s. Early work focused on computer‑aided prediction and recommendation engines. The narrative describes the evolution from rule‑based to data‑dr