To appreciate what we can currently do with AI, we need to get a basic understanding of how the idea of emulating the human brain was born, and how this idea evolved to a point where we can easily solve tasks in vision and language with human-like capability through machines.
It all started in 1959 when a couple of Harvard scientists, Hubel and Wiesel, were experimenting with a cat's visual system by monitoring the primary visual cortex in the cat's brain.
The primary visual cortex is a collection of neurons in the brain placed at the back of the skull and is responsible for processing vision. It is the first part of the brain that receives input signals from the eye, very much like how a human brain would process vision. ...
