“The origin of AI” Blog

THE ORIGIN OF AI  –  WHAT IS AI?

AI or artificial intelligence was made with the idea of making a machine that could imitate the cognitive abilities of a human being with the goal of progressing the evolution of man even further than we could imagine. because of ai, we have been able to make self-driving cars and robots, that are able to monitor social media and so much more. but you may be asking how this all came to be, who was the genius behind this revolutionary invention. let me take you back to the year 1935.

As the world evolves so does the evolution of man, we constantly look to innovate the world in new and unique ways to make everyday life that much easier. the discovery of electricity, plumbing, cars, television, and the internet are some examples of what we as humans have accomplished to make in our long history. today we have made yet another breakthrough with something that could change the world for the better or the worse if steered in the wrong direction and it is called ai.

ALAN MATHISON TURING

The year is 1935 and a British logician named Alan Mathison’s turning had an idea one day and decided an “abstract of a commuting machine consisting of a limitless memory and a scanner that move back and forth through memory, symbol by symbol, reading what it finds and writing further symbols”- Britannica. This was the earliest concept of ai and he explained what he was the coding that would need to be going into the artificial service to get it running.

ARTHUR SAMUEL AND AI CHESS

Then in 1952 was the first recording of an AI program running in the United Stateswhich was a checkers program. It was an AI that could play checkers and would get smarter the more you played against it. It was written by Arthur Samuel for the prototype of the IBM 701.

Originally the checkers program was made in 1951 by Christopher Strachey but Samuel expanded it to the point that AI like I stated before would get smarter with each game it played. It was so advanced it won against a former Connecticut checkers champion in 1962.

WHAT HAS BEEN MADE BECAUSE OF AI?

From there, AI started to evolve with the advancement of technology, now it is used universally in the world.  AI is even in our phones like Hey Siri, Hey Google and Alexa. Because of this, we have made advances in the world that we thought would not be possible now. You may be curious about what has been accomplished because of AI. Well, tune in next week for the answer to that question as we take a dive into the creations that have come from AI.