Category: Throwback Thursday
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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.
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Reading Time: 13 minutes – Smart underwear integrates AI technology for health monitoring, offering continuous, non-invasive data collection on vital metrics, thus revolutionizing personal health management while raising ethical and privacy concerns.
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Reading Time: 11 minutes – The story of Philip K. Dick’s android explores the intersection of technology and philosophy, highlighting its mysterious disappearance and how it embodied questions of identity, reality, and consciousness.