Forbes October 18, 2024
In the fourth and last component of our “The Mind’s Mirror” book review, let’s look at the appendix, a timeline in AI advancement as presented by the authors Daniela Rus and Gregory Mone.
This timeline starts in 1943 with the work of Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, their ‘McCulloch and Pitts neuron’ and their paper: “A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity.” (Note how at that time, the word ‘neural’ hadn’t even been popularized– – that’s how old this early research was.)
The next entry after this is a reference to the work of Alan Turing, who introduced the Turing test at mid-century. That would turn out to be a very important part of how we talk...