Handbook of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence

2GeoAI's Thousand-Year History

Helen Couclelis

Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara

DOI: 10.1201/9781003308423-2

CONTENTS

• 2.1 Introduction and Background

  1. 2.1.1 From Talos to ChatGPT-4

  2. 2.1.2 Geoscientists and Machines

• 2.2 Three Flavors of GeoAI

  1. 2.2.1 Program: The Symbolic Phase

  2. 2.2.2 Neural Nets: The Machine-Learning phase

  3. 2.2.3 Speculations: The Science Fiction phase

• 2.3 Being Human

  1. Bibliography

2.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

Many thousands of years ago, Talos, a kind, eight-foot-tall giant, was patrolling the Greek island of Crete in the south Mediterranean, completing his rounds three times a day. Princess Europa had recently landed on Crete, following an enjoyable flight on the back of a gorgeous white ...