Artificial intelligence has become a significant part of today’s world and therefore a major issue as well. Even in schools, the use of artificial intelligence is huge. Schools themselves use AI image processing to create promotional material and such. So how did AI become such a huge part of our lives within a few years? We should go over the history of artificial intelligence so that we can see how fast it went from a novelty, which just seemed like a fun tool, to taking over every moment of our lives.
The idea of modern artificial intelligence first arose in the 1930s, with the first actual AI being the IBM 702. The IBM 702 wasn’t long-lived. People like Alan Turing, creator of the famed Turing test, were vital in this effort. The Turing test provides a human judge with a conversation between a human and a machine. If the judge cannot consistently tell the human and machine apart, the machine passes the test of intelligent behavior. As various AI could not pass the Turing test, the belief that AI could ever exhibit human intelligence began to fade. AI began to be seen as a gimmick rather than something that would meet the Turing test.
The 1970s witnessed an “AI winter” with barely any growth in the sector. Funding for such projects would largely cease. Then, in 1980, a boom occurred with something called an expert system. An expert system is an algorithm with answers from a set of rules. Funding began to open up again, with the Japanese government putting $850 million dollars towards the development of AI. After this boom, though, another AI winter occurred. This winter would only end when large amounts of data surplus became available.
And that leads us to the present; it seems that we cannot escape the constant flow of AI. AI is large threat. It takes 2-5 liters of water and gets about 1 billion prompts daily. Thats 2-5 billon liters of water everyday, as data centers use water to cool their heat-generating servers as well as to generate electricity. Running an AI costs about $700,000 per day. Google is losing a lot of money on it. OpenAI has been operating at a net loss. Even so, it seems that AI is used for everything. You cannot escape it.
And while companies have installed AI everywhere, it is often a misused tool.
