Race to AI: the origins of artificial intelligence, from Turing to ChatGPT

Today ’s poem-writing AI has ancestry in punch-card machines, trundling robots and godlike gaming enginesIn the winter of 1958, a 30-year-old psychologist named Frank Rosenblatt was en route from Cornell University to the Office of Naval Research in Washington DC when he stopped for coffee with a journalist.Rosenblatt had unveiled a remarkable invention that, in the nascent days of computing, created quite a stir. It was, he declared, “the first machine which is capable of having an original idea”.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 28, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Ian Sample Science editor Tags: Artificial intelligence (AI) Technology Computing Consciousness Neuroscience Alan Turing UK news DeepMind OpenAI IBM Source Type: news