The Building Blocks of Artificial Intelligence
The Building Blocks of Artificial Intelligence BY December 31, 2020 Do the benefits of AI outweigh the dangers? Here we track how AI is already shaping humanity. . I n 1950, mathematician Alan Turing said that computers would surpass the point where machine intelligence could be questioned when a chatbot could convince humans they were talking to another human instead of a chatbot for a full five minutes. The idea became a cornerstone in basic computer science and the basis of a 1990s competition funded by an eccentric millionaire. When a computer was able to fulfill Turing’s prophecy and t...