A brief history of AI

Alan Turing famously thought that the question of whether machines can think is “too meaningless” to deserve discussion. To better define “thinking machines” or artificial intelligence, Turing proposed “The Imitation Game,” now usually called “The Turing Test,” in...

Smoothing out AI’s rough edges

Follow the usual AI suspects on X—Andrew Ng, Paige Bailey, Demis Hassabis, Thom Wolf, Santiago Valdarrama, etc.—and you start to discern patterns in emerging AI challenges and how developers are solving them. Right now, these prominent practitioners expose at least...