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"In a way, open source and artificial intelligence were born together.
Back in 1971, if you'd mentioned AI to most people, they might have thought of
Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics. However, AI was already a real subject
that year at MIT, where Richard M. Stallman (RMS) joined MIT's Artificial
Intelligence Lab.
Years later, as proprietary software sprang up, RMS developed the radical idea
of Free Software. Decades later, this concept, transformed into open source,
would become the birthplace of modern AI.
It wasn't a science-fiction writer but a computer scientist, Alan Turing, who
started the modern AI movement. Turing's 1950 paper
Computing Machine and
Intelligence originated the Turing Test. The test, in brief, states that if a
machine can fool you into thinking that you're talking with a human being, it's
intelligent.
According to some people, today's AIs can already do this. I don't agree, but
we're clearly on our way."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
