Category: Throwback Thursday
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Reading Time: 15 minutes – The journey from AI@50 to AI@75 isn’t just about building better machines. It’s about building a better humanity. And the next chapter — like the last — is ours to write.
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Reading Time: 13 minutes – In the 1980s, Max Headroom glitched onto TV as a fictional AI—but his warnings about media control, digital identity, and artificial personas feel eerily real today. Explore how this retro cyber-icon predicted the AI-driven world we’re now living in.
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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: 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.
