Artificial Intelligence

AI and the Future - 7

From the beginning some people have predicted that machine intelligence will one day outstrip that of humans.

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The idea of superhuman intelligence residing in mechanical devices is a very old one. It is a very common trope in Science Fiction. We will examine the thoughts of one of the giants of that field—Arthur Charles Clarke (1917-2008).

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AI and the Future - 6

In 1955 John McCarthy, an assistant professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, organised a group “To clarify and develop ideas about ‘Thinking Machines’.” The following year, he coined the term “Artificial Intelligence”, now shortened to AI.

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AI AND THE FUTURE - 4

We now move on to one of the greatest minds of the Twentieth Century, namely Alan Turing. Turing was a genuine polymath, solving problems in biology as well as pure mathematics and basically creating the discipline of Computer Science. Read Parts 1-3 below

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