a reply to:
BrucellaOrchitis
Well, duh!
It's not as if any of this is secret and under the covers any more because of that competitiveness that you speak of. You can't reach the full scope
of the market otherwise. You need rumour, you need expectations and you need big explosions.
Well, Duh!...right back at ya! I think you've missed the point entirely (again). And, it's not that you've missed the point which is so surprising
but rather by how far you've missed the point! "Big explosions" indeed.
Trust me, I'm no novice to A.I.
When I first started researching “Artificial Intelligence” I didn’t even know what I was looking for, or what it was called. This was back in
1981 and I was in college at the University of Utah at the time. At the time I was having an issue of not being able to use my PC processor to
perform another task while at the same time compiling a database I’d written. I was looking for a solution. I’d gone to the main Library at the
University of Utah in search of some answers. One of the professors there suggested I look in the Computer Information Sciences section where I found
a text entitled ‘Artificial Intelligence’. Again, this was nearly 40 years ago in 1981; the ‘Personal Computer’ (PC) was barely even a thing
back then.
I didn’t know it then, but what I was looking for wasn’t really ‘artificial intelligence’ but rather another commonly used process today
called ‘multi-tasking’ of a processor. What I had wanted back then was a ‘smart’ way to share processor load and switch between tasks which
is what led me to the artificial intelligence text I referred to. This was my first exposure to “Artificial Intelligence” (A.I.). I have been
involved in computers and electronics ever since.
Way back then AI wasn’t even a thing, it was only just a theory, and a very distant one at that, complete with all sorts of fantastical science
fiction-like prognostications. People were blending PC’s of the day with George Jetson and coming up with all manner of crazy conclusions. How AI
has actually evolved is far different, and much more predictable. The “Internet” didn’t exist then, and this is an important developmental
milestone. It was very clear to me back then, in order for AI to ever become any sort of a reality there would need to be vast repositories of data,
far beyond anything mankind was capable of in the day, for such a system to draw upon. The Internet provides this ‘database’ of information. The
Internet wasn’t created to make AI become a reality, but AI draws upon the Internet to form its intelligence (among other sources). In a way, they
are symbiotic.
Most people cannot wrap their minds around what AI is; they’ve seen so many things which appear to be ‘smart’ in their lives they believe AI is
just another evolution of this same thing. It isn’t…it’s very different. What all those people have been seeing is programmed intelligence.
The ‘smarts’ they perceived were really nothing more than painstaking levels of laborious programming to simulate intelligence based on known
human behavior. Again, AI is very different from this. It was all those laborious efforts which contributed to the vast amounts of information
available on the Internet. The difference now is, AI can take all these data points and create ‘intelligence’ all on its own. This is different;
it is a paradigm shift in the way intelligence is derived, and most importantly it is not based on human input. This is key.
If you think for one moment that I haven’t researched in great detail what Artificial Intelligence is all about, you would be sorely mistaken.
I’ve been researching AI since before AI was even a thing. Probably my biggest regret about AI doesn’t have to do with AI at all, but rather how
I wish I’d found a different book that day in the U of U library way back in 1981. The book I was really looking for back then was a book on how to
code an instruction set such that a single processor could perform multiple different tasks, using multiple different applications, at the same time.
Because, If I would have found
that book, and figured out how to do the coding, then I would have been the creator of…you guessed
it…WINDOWS! (but
that is another post indeed!)
edit on 5/18/2024 by Flyingclaydisk because: (no reason given)