After watching The Thinking Game on YouTube, I came away with the conviction that Human History is going to be divided into pre-Artificial Intelligence and post-Artificial Intelligence. That moment will hit within our lifetimes…possibly in the next few years at the rate development is progressing.
The Thinking Game is a documentary about Demis Hassabis, a scientist obsessed with solving Artificial Intelligence. For much of his youth, Demis played competitive chess. His family was poor and his winnings help to support them. But then, after Demis lost one of his matches by committing an error, he decides that what he really wanted to do was to solve the Artificial Intelligence puzzle.
Demis applied to Graduate School, but he was told he had to wait until he was 17. So Demis spent a year working for Bullfrog, a European software game company. Demis worked on Theme Park which he infused with AI elements. Theme Park became a worldwide best selling game. Bullfrog offered Demis £1,000,000 pounds to stay–this was in the 1990s–and Demis turned them down so he could go to College.
DeepMind was founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman in November 2010. The focus of the company was to develop a working Artificial Intelligence. In 2014, GOOGLE paid $400,000,000 for DeepMind while allowing Demis, Shane, and Mustafa to run it independently in London, England.
This 84 minute documentary shows how DeepMind developed its Artificial Intelligence. If you’re using Gemini as part of GOOGLE Crome you’re already in the AI world. Highly recommended! GRADE: A
I’m not a fan of AI, though I admit to not really being aware of it in normal emails etc. I’m very technically challenged.
Maggie, the aim of most Artificial Intelligent projects is to make AI easy to use. Like cell phones.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m glad I’m old.
Deb, if AI goes the way of THE TERMINATOR, we’re in deep shit…
To quote the late Bill Crider, we’re doomed, doomed.
Jeff, Bill Crider was always leery of AI. Me, too.
On the other hand, is HAL much worse a prospect than Trump? Either way, the dark ages are here again.
Of course, HAL was, like the human characters, a tool of a universe hoping to create a new god. While Drumpf is simply a malfunctioning tool of his own overriding vanity and incontinence.
Fred, if AI takes over it will HAL to pay…
AI will be the end of civilization as we know it! It’ll make Big Brother seem like a benevolent organization! The creators of this demonic technology ought to be burned at the stake!
Bob, notice politicians of both parties have allowed unlimited actions by AI. No guard rails, no rules, no nothing! We are unleashing this “demonic technology” on ourselves!
I just called triple a to find out why I didn’t get my new proof of insurance after sending my renewal check over 3 weeks ago. I had to hang up the first call because the AI refused to transfer me to a live person after about 15 tries. The second call took 6 times asking for a real person before I got one.
Maggie, the goal for most companies is for AI to answer all service calls. There will be no humans to talk to.