Untold History of AI / IEEE Spectrum
A fascinating look back at the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) development. I find it very suitable for those of us who benefit ( or not) from AI advances without having a deep knowledge of how it actually is done. I’m linking to part 4 that focuses on work and vision of J.C.R. Licklider (1915-1990). If of interest, read parts 1 -3 and stay tuned for the next ones.
“In a 1960 paper entitled “Man-Machine Symbiosis,” Licklider spelled out his idea. “The hope is that in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.”
People once downloaded games from the radio / amusingplanet.com
“In the early 1980s, engineers over at the Dutch broadcasting organization Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) had this fantastic idea of distributing computer programs over the radio. Because programs and data were stored on audio cassettes, it was possible for these data cassettes to be played back on a cassette player, and the resulting audio—which sounds very much like a dial-up modem—was broadcasted over the radio waves. Listeners recorded the audio onto cassettes and loaded the programs into their computers. The radio program named “Hobbyscoop” became wildly popular. They even developed a new format called BASICODE to ensure maximum compatibility between different personal computers that were available at the time.”