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SUMMARY:A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
LOCATION:Room 2008
DESCRIPTION:Tim Berglund\n\nUp until early 2023\, I regularly said AI would
  always have a bright future—and I didn't mean that as a compliment. Sur
 e\, deep learning had made us good at building very impressive classifiers
  in the decade or so prior\, but for so long\, human-like intelligence was
  just five years in the future—and that made me a skeptic. Things are di
 fferent now\, but how much skepticism is still warranted? What is it that 
 we've got on our hands? What changes is modern AI bringing with it? Like w
 ith so many other questions\, the answers are easier if we understand wher
 e we've come from. Beginning with the Turing Test itself\, the famous Dart
 mouth Conference of 1956\, and the Perceptron of 1957\, we'll trace decade
 s of disappointment and broken promises as we tried to realize the true po
 tential of computing\, at the same time grasping for an understanding of w
 hat it means to be human. Taking a close look at various technologies alon
 g the way\, we'll arrive in the 21st century\, the revival of neural netwo
 rks\, the advent of the Transformer\, and a revolutionary new technology c
 ategory that has prompted oracles of weal and woe from our most optimistic
  and apocalyptic technology prophets. Standing on the edge of the unknown\
 , what elements of the 75-year-old promise have we realized? A close exami
 nation gives us a better view of our immediate future as technologists and
  insight into what it means to be human.
URL:https://sf26.rmoff.net/s/a-brief-history-of-artificial-intelligence-226
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