{"id":3342,"date":"2024-09-01T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2024-09-01T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T12:58:19","slug":"history-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workhouse.sweetdishy.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/01\/history-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"History Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monrovia, CA, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p id=\"Par3\"><em>Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Google<\/em>&nbsp;<em>. 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\u2019re nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"Par4\">\u2014Larry Page, the co-founder of Google Inc. and CEO of Alphabet<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/learning.oreilly.com\/library\/view\/artificial-intelligence-basics\/9781484250280\/html\/480660_1_En_1_Chapter.xhtml#Fn1\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"Par5\">In Fredric Brown\u2019s 1954 short story, \u201cAnswer,\u201d all of the computers across the 96 billion planets in the universe were connected into one super machine. It was then asked, \u201cIs there a God?\u201d to which it answered, \u201cYes,&nbsp;<em>now<\/em>&nbsp;there is a God.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"Par7\">No doubt, Brown\u2019s story was certainly clever\u2014as well as a bit comical and chilling! Science fiction has been a way for us to understand the implications of new technologies, and artificial intelligence (AI) has been a major theme. Some of the most memorable characters in science fiction involve androids or computers that become self-aware, such as in&nbsp;<em>Terminator<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Blade Runner<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>2001: A Space Odyssey,<\/em>&nbsp;and even&nbsp;<em>Frankenstein<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"Par8\">But with the relentless pace of new technologies and innovation nowadays, science fiction is starting to become real. We can now talk to our smartphones and get answers; our social media accounts provide us with the content we\u2019re interested in; our banking apps provide us with reminders; and on and on. This personalized content creation almost seems magical but is quickly becoming normal in our everyday lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"Par9\">To understand AI, it\u2019s important to have a grounding in its rich history. You\u2019ll see how the development of this industry has been full of breakthroughs and setbacks. There is also a cast of brilliant researchers and academics, like Alan Turing,&nbsp;John McCarthy,&nbsp;Marvin Minsky, and&nbsp;Geoffrey Hinton, who pushed the boundaries of the technology. But through it all, there was constant progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"Par10\">Let\u2019s get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia, CA, USA Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of&nbsp;Google&nbsp;. 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\u2019re nowhere near doing that now. 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