Category: History of AI
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Reading Time: 11 minutes – In the 1970s, artist Harold Cohen pioneered AARON, an innovative AI capable of creating art autonomously. Unlike traditional AI, AARON learned through coded concepts rather than datasets. This sparked debates on machine creativity, authorship, and the nature of art itself, influencing contemporary discussions on generative AI and artistic innovation.
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Reading Time: 10 minutes – The Mechanical Turk, an 18th-century automaton chess player, sparked debates about intelligence and illusion, paralleling today’s AI technologies like Amazon’s MTurk, highlighting the ongoing relationship between human creativity and machine performance in defining intelligence.
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Reading Time: 13 minutes – The article explores Human-Centered Generative AI (HGAI), highlighting its evolution from basic AI to empathetic systems that enhance everyday life while raising ethical questions about human-machine interactions and technology’s alignment with human values.
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Reading Time: 19 minutes – The resurgence of Artificial Life (ALife) and Genetic Algorithms (GAs) is redefining our understanding of life and intelligence, blending biology with technology to tackle real-world challenges and provoke philosophical questions about existence and evolution.
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Reading Time: 13 minutes – Prompt engineering designs inputs for AI models to yield accurate responses. It blends psychology, linguistics, and logic, improving productivity and ethical AI use. Essential across industries, skills are in high demand.