The meeting of the minds that launched AI
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The meeting of the minds that launched AI
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#2My father and his friends were academic computer scientists working on AI back in the 60s. I don't know that there's a straightforward path between what they were doing and the popular LLMs today, but I do applaud more stories on what old school comp sci researchers were up to.
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#3Summer camp for mathematicians
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#4Other than Minsky, I don’t think others (who are nevertheless scientists in their respective fields) are considered to have made significant contributions to modern machine learning or AI. McCarthy’s work around this topic culminated in LISP, leading to Emacs, a text editor!
From that period, Rosenblatt’s work was instrumental to modern AI.
Re: The meeting of the minds that launched AI
#5My father and his friends were academic computer scientists working on AI back in the 60s. I don't know that there's a straightforward path between what they were doing and the popular LLMs today, but I do applaud more stories on what old school comp sci researchers were up to.
There's some value in putting a flag in the ground. Even if most of those people there were in the symbolic camp, a lot of their critiques of neural networks as they existed were well-founded and were really only proved obviously _wrong_ after many many rounds of moore's law.
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#6Other than Minsky, I don’t think others (who are nevertheless scientists in their respective fields) are considered to have made significant contributions to modern machine learning or AI. McCarthy’s work around this topic culminated in LISP, leading to Emacs, a text editor! From that period, Rosenblatt’s work was instrumental to modern AI.
Solomonoff's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_induc... is about as basic to the theory of intelligent agents as anything gets.
(He's in the pic and I'd guess this article was by a relative.)
Re: The meeting of the minds that launched AI
#7Other than Minsky, I don’t think others (who are nevertheless scientists in their respective fields) are considered to have made significant contributions to modern machine learning or AI. McCarthy’s work around this topic culminated in LISP, leading to Emacs, a text editor! From that period, Rosenblatt’s work was instrumental to modern AI.
Claiming that the creator of LISP did not have a significant impact on AI is not a defensible position.
Re: The meeting of the minds that launched AI
#8Other than Minsky, I don’t think others (who are nevertheless scientists in their respective fields) are considered to have made significant contributions to modern machine learning or AI. McCarthy’s work around this topic culminated in LISP, leading to Emacs, a text editor! From that period, Rosenblatt’s work was instrumental to modern AI.
Claiming that the creator of LISP did not have a significant impact on AI is not a defensible position.
People forget for how long Lisp had an impact on AI, even outside GOFAI techniques; LeCun's early neural networks were written in Lisp: https://leon.bottou.org/publications/pdf/sn-1988.pdf
Re: The meeting of the minds that launched AI
#9Other than Minsky, I don’t think others (who are nevertheless scientists in their respective fields) are considered to have made significant contributions to modern machine learning or AI. McCarthy’s work around this topic culminated in LISP, leading to Emacs, a text editor! From that period, Rosenblatt’s work was instrumental to modern AI.
Emacs is so much more than a text editor! But I need to stay on topic...
I believe your assessment of LISP (and therefore of MacArthy)'s impact on AI to be unfair. Just a few days ago https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp was discussed on this site, for example.
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#10Other than Minsky, I don’t think others (who are nevertheless scientists in their respective fields) are considered to have made significant contributions to modern machine learning or AI. McCarthy’s work around this topic culminated in LISP, leading to Emacs, a text editor! From that period, Rosenblatt’s work was instrumental to modern AI.
Solomonoff's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff%27s_theory_of_induc... is about as basic to the theory of intelligent agents as anything gets. (He's in the pic and I'd guess this article was by a relative.)
If I was an intelligent agent, I would prefer to be based on a theory that was computable without time travel, which this one isn't.