Dreams of electric sheep
It’s all well and good to ask if androids dream of electric sheep, but science fact has evolved to a point where it’s beginning to coincide with science fiction. No, we don’t have autonomous androids struggling with existential crises — yet — but we are getting ever closer to what people tend to call “.” To read a short abstract of the novel by Philip K. Dick click here.
Impact of
Machine Learning is a sub-set of
Stroll down memory lane
This post offers a quick trip through time to examine the origins of
- 1950 — Alan Turing creates the “Turing Test” to determine if a computer has real intelligence. To pass the test, a computer must be able to fool a human into believing it is also human.
- 1952 — Arthur Samuel wrote the first computer learning program. The program was the game of checkers, and the IBM IBM +0.71% computer improved at the game the more it played, studying which moves made up winning strategies and incorporating those moves into its program.
- 1957 — Frank Rosenblatt designed the first neural network for computers (the perceptron), which simulate the thought processes of the human brain.
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