Fun fact about AI
It is commonly accepted that the Dartmouth Conference in 1956, where the phrase "artificial intelligence" was first used in public, marked the beginning of the field of AI, under the leadership of John McCarthy and a team of respected researchers. The phrase did, however, make its debut in a 1955 proposal for a "2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence" put forth by John McCarthy (Dartmouth College), Marvin Minsky (Harvard University), Nathaniel Rochester (IBM), and Claude Shannon (Bell Telephone Laboratories).
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Soon after AI, the phrase "machine learning" was first used. The IBM Journal published Arthur L. Samuel's article, "Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers," in July 1959.
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In 1966, ELIZA, the first chatbot with artificial intelligence, debuted. You did read that correctly. Before Amazon's Alexa, ELIZA was first introduced 48 years ago. ELIZA, which was inspired by the literary character Eliza Doolittle, would effectively reformulate the user's input as a question. Therefore, if you informed ELIZA about some weekend activities that you were looking forward to, she would ask, "What about those plans excites you?" Creator of ELIZA Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT warned the public about the risks of allowing AI to play such a significant role in society after witnessing ELIZA in operation.
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Harold Cohen's AARON shows how AI can be applied in the arts. Cohen, a pioneer of computer art, graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art at the University of London in 1950 and started his career as a painter. Nearly two decades later, Cohen was seeking his next hobby when he developed an interest in computer science. Then he united his two passions and developed AARON, the name for a collection of computer programs that produce unique creative visuals.
Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Pierre Fautrel, and Gauthier Vernier are members of the collective known as Obvious who used generative adversarial networks (GANs) to generate the portrait of Edmond Belamy, which was put up for auction by renowned auction house Christie's in 2018.
