Machine Learning

1.2 WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)?

DOI: 10.4324/9781003297192-3

» THE IDEA THAT COMPUTERS MIGHT DRAMATICALLY AUGMENT THE CAPABILITIES OF HUMANS - OR POSSIBLY SUPPLANT US ALTOGETHER - IS MANY YEARS OLD. BEFORE SETTING OUT THE OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS OF AI FOR ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE, THIS CHAPTER WILL SKETCH A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TECHNOLOGY AND POSIT A TAXONOMY BY WHICH ITS PRESENCE AND FUTURE MIGHT BE UNDERSTOOD AND PREDICTED. «

ORIGINS OF GOOD OLD-FASHIONED AI

The computer scientist John McCarthy is generally credited with coining the term 'artificial intelligence' in 1956, suggesting that computing machines could somehow mimic the functions of the human brain. And long before computing was within reach of mainstream practising ...