TL;DR 30 sec6 min coredeep dive optional Artificial intelligence is a capability of computational systems, software that takes in information about its surroundings and works toward the goals it was given; the working definition promises no copy of a person, and the field’s record never delivered one. The field opened with a 1955 bet that… Continue reading
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AI History: Booms, Winters, and Revivals
TL;DR 30 sec7 min coredeep dive optional AI history is a hundred-year cycle of hype booms and funding winters, and the current wave is the field’s third boom: founded in 1956, frozen out in the 1970s and again from 1987, revived after 2012 on data, GPU compute and backpropagation. The groundwork predates the name by… Continue reading
Narrow AI to Superintelligence: The Lines That Matter
TL;DR 30 sec7 min coredeep dive optional Narrow AI, a system built for one defined task, is the only kind of artificial intelligence in use today, while general AI and superintelligence stay hypothetical and only two of the four functionality classes have members. Every deployed system, from voice assistants to chess engines to chatbots, handles… Continue reading