Category: 1. AI Foundations

In 1943, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts met at the University of Chicago, and they became fast friends even though their backgrounds were starkly different as were their ages (McCulloch was 42 and Pitts was 18). McCulloch grew up in a wealthy Eastern Establishment family, having gone to prestigious schools. Pitts, on the other hand,…

Alan Turing is a towering figure in computer science and AI. He is often called the “father of AI.” In 1936, he wrote a paper called “On Computable Numbers.” In it, he set forth the core concepts of a computer, which became known as the Turing machine. Keep in mind that real computers would not be developed…

Monrovia, CA, USA Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google . The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We’re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically…