The Rise of AI - Technology Documentary - Ting Documentary
- 3 years ago
When one hears the term "AI," images of a futuristic, fully automated world that frees humanity from day to day tasks come up - combined with darker visions of a dystopian world where people will be subjugated by "Robocop" type machines that control everything.
The planet is currently experiencing a glorious era in technological history - the rise of artificial intelligence. Yep! AI has finally arrived - and it's here to stay. Many of us have not noticed but in the past decade, artificial intelligence has advanced so much that it is now in our homes, directly affecting our everyday lives. AI is in our electronics (Hello Alexa!), including our smartphones, helping us shop online, translating foreign languages and even recommending videos to binge on Netflix.
From the moment computers were created, man has always worked on making it think more like humans. Studies began in earnest in the late 1950s, but sadly, the final outcome was not successful and this potential new field of computer science was (basically) declared a dud.
Fast forward to the 1980s, it was given a new life by scientists in Canada, which never stopped funding AI research when the rest of the world did. This continued support allowed AI pioneers like Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Richard Sutton to push forward and lay the groundwork for what we now call machine and deep learning. It still took another 25 to 30 years though, for AI to shine, mainly because the technology - especially the development of supercomputers and super-fast processing chips, finally caught up with Hinton's ideas.
The planet is currently experiencing a glorious era in technological history - the rise of artificial intelligence. Yep! AI has finally arrived - and it's here to stay. Many of us have not noticed but in the past decade, artificial intelligence has advanced so much that it is now in our homes, directly affecting our everyday lives. AI is in our electronics (Hello Alexa!), including our smartphones, helping us shop online, translating foreign languages and even recommending videos to binge on Netflix.
From the moment computers were created, man has always worked on making it think more like humans. Studies began in earnest in the late 1950s, but sadly, the final outcome was not successful and this potential new field of computer science was (basically) declared a dud.
Fast forward to the 1980s, it was given a new life by scientists in Canada, which never stopped funding AI research when the rest of the world did. This continued support allowed AI pioneers like Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Richard Sutton to push forward and lay the groundwork for what we now call machine and deep learning. It still took another 25 to 30 years though, for AI to shine, mainly because the technology - especially the development of supercomputers and super-fast processing chips, finally caught up with Hinton's ideas.