ai-winter
A period when AI research funding and interest declined, preceding the resurgence marked by breakthroughs like AlphaGo.
2 chapters across 2 books
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma (2023)Mustafa Suleyman; Michael Bhaskar
Chapter 4 recounts the author's firsthand experience witnessing the emergence of artificial intelligence as a transformative technology, beginning with DeepMind's Deep Q-Network (DQN) learning to play Atari games and culminating in AlphaGo's historic victory over world champion Lee Sedol. The chapter highlights AI's ability to discover novel strategies and knowledge beyond human intuition, marking a pivotal moment in AI research and signaling the onset of a new technological wave with broad implications for solving complex real-world problems.
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future (2021)Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher
Chapter 3 traces the evolution of artificial intelligence from its origins with the Turing test and early rule-based systems to the modern era of machine learning and neural networks. It highlights the shift from encoding explicit human knowledge to enabling machines to learn from data, overcoming prior limitations in tasks like visual recognition and language translation. The chapter also discusses the revolutionary qualities of AI such as imprecision, dynamism, emergence, and learning capacity, illustrating these with examples like AlphaZero and AI-driven drug discovery.