Artificial intelligence: The machines with alien minds
11 years, 3 months ago

Artificial intelligence: The machines with alien minds

BBC  

Artificial intelligence: The machines with alien minds Our smartest machines look nothing like we predicted – has the field lost its way, or do we need to rethink what AI actually means, asks Tom Chatfield. In 1956, attendees of a research camp at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire coined the phrase "artificial intelligence" to describe its efforts to “find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves.” Compare that with the AI project that Facebook announced this month. Google, IBM and many others are now using this technique – called machine learning – to great commercial success, and the “intelligence” they create underpins everything from your internet searches to online language translation. Yet even the most advanced forms of machine intelligence cannot hope to pass for a human in Turing’s famous test – let alone use natural language or develop concepts themselves, as the pioneers hoped.

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70 years of AI. Ready for the revolution?
1 month, 4 weeks ago

70 years of AI. Ready for the revolution?

New Indian Express  

Turing days and beyond The answer to our question lies in the quiet folds of Alan Turing’s paper, titled ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’, published in 1950. According to McCarthy, now hailed as the father of AI, artificial intelligence is “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines”. “The term, and no doubt the idea, piqued a lot of interest and …

A new book chronicles the battle over AI, but fails to question whether AI is worth battling over
6 months, 3 weeks ago

A new book chronicles the battle over AI, but fails to question whether AI is worth battling over

LA Times  

Book Reviews Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World By Parmy Olson St. Martin’s Press” 336 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. For much of her book, Olson seems overly captivated by the potential of AI; in her prologue, …

Why 'artificial intelligence' is still just a marketing buzzword
1 year, 10 months ago

Why 'artificial intelligence' is still just a marketing buzzword

Raw Story  

Investors’ demand for stocks of companies touting “Artificial Intelligence” accounts for all the US stock market gains this year. “AI is a machine’s ability to perform the cognitive functions we associate with human minds, such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, interacting with an environment, problem solving, and even exercising creativity,” kvells McKinsey and Company, the management firm whose high-paid consultants who …

Artificial intelligence research may have hit a dead end
3 years, 11 months ago

Artificial intelligence research may have hit a dead end

Salon  

Philip K. Dick's iconic 1968 sci-fi novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Mainly, it's that most artificial intelligence researchers and scientists are busy trying to design "intelligent" software programmed to do specific tasks. Most AI researchers are even less optimistic about the possibility of a so-called "superintelligent AI" that would become more intelligent than humans due to a hypothetical …

What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide
55 years, 3 months ago

What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide

Wired  

Artificial intelligence is here. Moments that Shaped AI 1956 The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence coins the name of a new field concerned with making software smart like humans. 2012 Researchers in a niche field called deep learning spur new corporate interest in AI by showing their ideas can make speech and image recognition much more accurate. The …

Explainer: What is artificial intelligence?
7 years, 7 months ago

Explainer: What is artificial intelligence?

ABC  

Artificial intelligence has jumped from sci-fi movie plots into mainstream news headlines in just a couple of years. "An intelligent computer system could be as simple as a program that plays chess or as complex as a driverless car," Mary-Anne Williams, professor of social robotics at the University of Technology, Sydney, said. "Whether it's recognizing objects, identifying people in photos, …

Artificial Intelligence is coming of age, slowly but surely
8 years, 5 months ago

Artificial Intelligence is coming of age, slowly but surely

Live Mint  

Have you seen sci-fi movies like A.I. According to the study panel, Nils J. Nilsson has provided a useful definition: “Artificial intelligence is that activity devoted to making machines intelligent, and intelligence is that quality that enables an entity to function appropriately and with foresight in its environment.” Nilsson is Kumagai professor of engineering in the department of computer science …

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