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The Committee | The Oracle of AI | A Different Kind of Vision

TV Flash files “The Committee | The Oracle of AI | A Different Kind of Vision” as hour 524 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 51, episode 15, aired 2019-01-13, 60 min.

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This leaf is S51E15: listed hour 524 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 15 of 30 in season 51. It aired 2019-01-13 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | President El-Sisi | An Unlikely Inventor” (S51E14). Next is “Howard Schultz | Small Satellites | Jerry and Marge Selbee” (S51E16). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — The Committee | The Oracle of AI | A Different Kind of Vision (S51E15)

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Elijah Cummings' new power as House Oversight Committee chairman; then, how one man is advancing artificial intelligence; and, an architect goes blind, says he's actually gotten better at his job.

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Where does The Committee | The Oracle of AI | A Different Kind of Vision sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S51E15 is listed hour 524 of 767 — hour 15 of 30 in season 51, season 51 episode 15.

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The Committee | The Oracle of AI | A Different Kind of Vision aired 2019-01-13 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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The grammar is the same: multi-segment hour, stopwatch motif, investigations plus profiles. In the 1980s it frequently outrated sitcoms — proof news could dominate prime time.

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The template of TV newsmagazine power — for the craft of the package and the history of broadcast investigation. Hewitt's stopwatch, Wallace's ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes: Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Appointment news before the infinite scroll. Tick, tick, tick.

Tick, tick, tick — not a theme song, a weapon. CBS's 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt's stopwatch since 1968, was an 1980s Nielsen bully that outrated sitcoms on Sunday night: investigative pieces, profiles, commentator segments, correspondent star power. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Diane Sawyer, Andy Rooney's endnotes. **Ambush interviews and gotcha lore made Wallace a fearsome brand.** The museum guard wants the package as civic virtue. The flash is the ambush. Appointment news before the…

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