2WHY NOW? A HISTORY OF AI
Rowan Atkinson’s comic masterpiece Mr. Bean opens in the dead of night on a deserted London street. A spotlight appears, the title character falls from the sky, and a choir sings in Latin, “ecce homo qui est faba”—behold the man who is a bean. Mr. Bean picks himself up, brushes off his suit, and runs awkwardly into the darkness. He is something otherworldly, a thing that literally fell from the sky, defying comprehension.
Given the parade of AI wonder after wonder in recent years, we might be excused for thinking that AI, like Mr. Bean, fell from the sky, fully formed and beyond our comprehension. However, none of this ...
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