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Fans preserve and emulate Sega’s extremely rare ‘80s “AI computer”
(arstechnica.com)
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The literal first AI was an analog computer that the guy gave feedback to images on. If it's a circle or a square, if it guesses right or wrong.
It's literally the same training that we have used for models ever since and currently, and there are people trying to say Generative Imaging isn't AI.
Y'all. It's the exact thing AI was created in mind for.
Correct. When people say "ChatGPT isn't real AI" they mean it's not AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). The term "Artificial Intelligence" has been the proper term for the study of machine learning since the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop.
It's all AI, from the computer player in Battlechess to ChatGPT. It's not all using the same techniques, or have the same capabilities.
I don't think your characterisation of the Dartmouth Project and machine learning are quite correct. It was extremely broad and covered numerous avenues of research, it was not solely related to machine learning though that was certainly prominent.
The thing that bothers me is how reductive these recent narratives around AI can be. AI is a huge field including actionism, symbolism, and connectionism. So many people today think that neural nets are AI ("the proper term for the study of machine learning"), but neural nets are connectionism, ie just one of the three major fields of AI.
Anyway, the debate as to whether "AI" exists today or not is endless. But I don't agree with you. The term AGI has only come along recently, and is used to move the goalposts. What we originally meant by AI has always been an aspirational goal and one that we have not reached yet (and might never reach). Dartmouth categorised AI into various problems and hoped to make progress toward solving those problems, but as far as I'm aware did not expect to actually produce "an AI" as such.
That reminds me of the Square Hole Meme.