Why is there so much hype around AI?

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So AI is definitely real, but the hype is relatively recent. Many trace the earliest roots of AI to Alan Turing, a British mathematician who pioneered some of the earliest AI research in the mid-twentieth century.

This laid the foundations for modern day AI.

Turing theorized that the human brain was part of a large digital computing machine and designed what came to be known as the Turing test.

The Turing test is a criteria designed to determine whether a machine could exhibit intelligence indistinguishable from that of a human.

So over the following decades, AI continued to evolve.

Researchers developed systems capable of learning, reasoning, and problem solving.

However, despite the steady progress, AI largely remained in the background, advancing quietly throughout the latter half of the twentieth century.

In 1996, IBM’s Deep Blue won a chess match against Garry Kasparov, the then-world chess champion.

While Deep Blue’s capabilities pale in comparison to the AI we have today, at the time, this was truly groundbreaking.

From the 2000s to 2019, the field of AI experienced significant growth. This is a time period where IBM’s Watson, Apple’s Siri, and Amazon’s Alexa were born.

Both Siri and Alexa have natural language processing abilities, meaning they can understand human speech, but they are generally limited to answering the questions that they were trained to answer.

So, fast forward to today and what we’re seeing in the emergence of generative AI, which is a specific category of AI and should be distinguished.

So generative AI are systems that can create something new without being preprogrammed to produce a specific set of output.

Generative AI can create new text, images, and even compose music.

This is a relatively recent innovation that has captured significant attention.

But it’s just important to remember that while generative AI is the new frontier and radically changing the world in which we live, the broader field of AI has been developing for quite some time, and it’s important to understand the distinction.

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