[cardcrimson]

In his favorite work, The Last Question, Issac Asimov explored AI well before it was coined, and in fact before computers were really capable of much of anything. It's a quick read, and apropos of the discussion, I think.

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

maybe not well before

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered[1][2][3] to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop

the proposal for the conference is here

http://raysolomonoff.com/dartmouth/boxa/...4props.pdf

Okay, you win, not well before. I stand corrected. Still a great short story, and fwiw, he never mentions AI, just explores the concept of it. While the Multivac was benevolent, you gotta love the M5 just a decade later in Star Trek's "The Ultimate Computer".

Recently attended the Data Center World convention in DC, and one of the primary topics was AI and how to feed it the power it will require. Stunning amounts, frankly. One of the keynotes mentioned though that about half the "experts" predict AI will be of the benevolent Asimov's Multivac type, while the other half predict the M5, Skynet, or VIKI scenario.

[cardcrimson]

In his favorite work, The Last Question, Issac Asimov explored AI well before it was coined, and in fact before computers were really capable of much of anything. It's a quick read, and apropos of the discussion, I think.

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

maybe not well before

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was a 1956 summer workshop widely considered[1][2][3] to be the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop

the proposal for the conference is here

http://raysolomonoff.com/dartmouth/boxa/...4props.pdf

Okay, you win, not well before. I stand corrected. Still a great short story, and fwiw, he never mentions AI, just explores the concept of it. While the Multivac was benevolent, you gotta love the M5 just a decade later in Star Trek's "The Ultimate Computer".

Recently attended the Data Center World convention in DC, and one of the primary topics was AI and how to feed it the power it will require. Stunning amounts, frankly. One of the keynotes mentioned though that about half the "experts" predict AI will be of the benevolent Asimov's Multivac type, while the other half predict the M5, Skynet, or VIKI scenario.