This chapter provides a historical overview of the development of AI, starting with ancient myths of bringing inanimate objects to life, such as the myth of Hephaestus and the Golem. It traces the origins of AI to around 1950, with Alan Turing making significant scientific contributions to the field. The chapter discusses the progress of AI in the late 50s and 60s, highlights the ambitious programs and labs established by computer scientists, and mentions the AI winter in the 1970s. It also introduces the idea of neural networks and their recent advancements.
When did you first hear of GPT, Claude, DALL-E or Bard? Feels like a while ago, right? In barely over a year AI has permeated our conversations, our places of work and it feels omnipresent in the culture. It also threatens to make some of the pillars of our society redundant. Join researcher and author Carl Miller for POWER TRIP, a brand new podcast from Intelligence Squared, to see where that journey is leading us.
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Technology is going to impact the future of humanity in ways that we may never have predicted and in the coming years perhaps in ways we can no longer control. In this first episode, Carl Miller guides us through the journey of how we got to this point in the story of AI and asks whether historians in the future will look at the era as one of pre-GPT and post-GPT. Featuring Michael Wooldridge, Director of Foundational AI Research at the Turing Institute and professor of computer science at the University of Oxford; Judy Wajcman, Principal Investigator of the Women in Data Science and AI project at The Alan Turing Institute; Henry Ajder, Generative AI & Deepfakes Expert Advisor and AI researcher Connor Leahy, CEO of Conjuncture.
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