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The Highs and Lows of AI

Explore the historical development of artificial intelligence, including its early high expectations, periods of decline known as AI winters, and recent technological advancements that have transformed the field. Understand how new tools like distributed computing, GPUs, and quantum computing may shape AI's future and its applications across industries.

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AI timeline: A lesson on history

AI has had its rounds of inflated expectations and crushing disappointments. The timeline below shows the history of AI’s rises and falls (a.k.a. AI winters):

Image Credits: https://digitalwellbeing.org/artificial-intelligence-timeline-infographic-from-eliza-to-tay-and-beyond/
Image Credits: https://digitalwellbeing.org/artificial-intelligence-timeline-infographic-from-eliza-to-tay-and-beyond/

  • AI has been around since the beginning of computing. It became a formal discipline in 1956 as described by this statement: "Every aspect of learning or any other feature of ...