Absolutely needed: to get high efficiency for this beast ā¦ as it gets better, weāll become too dependent.
āall of this growth is for a new technology thatās still finding its footing, and in many applicationsāeducation, medical advice, legal analysisāmight be the wrong tool for the job,ā
The major thing that killed 1960s/70s AI was the Vietnam War. MITās CSAIL was funded heavily by DARPA. When public opinion turned against Vietnam and Congress started shutting off funding, DARPA wasnāt putting money into CSAIL anymore. Congress didnāt create an alternative funding path, so the whole thing dried up.
That lab basically created computing as we know it today. It bore fruit, and many companies owe their success to it. There were plenty of promising lines of research still going on.
I wish there was an alternate history forum or novel that explores this scenario.
Pretty sure āAIā didnāt exist in the 60s/70s either.
Yes, it did. Most of the basic research came from there. The first section of the book āHackersā by Steven Levy is a good intro.
The perceptron was created in 1957 and a physical model was built a year later