Artificial Intelligence: From Medieval Robots to Neural Networks

  • 5h 44m 11s
  • Clifford A. Pickover
  • Recorded Books, Inc.
  • 2019

A journey through the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, from popular science author Cliff Pickover.

From medieval robots and Boolean algebra to facial recognition, artificial neural networks, and adversarial patches, this fascinating history takes readers on a vast tour through the world of artificial intelligence. Award-winning author Clifford A. Pickover explores the historic and current applications of AI in such diverse fields as computing, medicine, popular culture, mythology, and philosophy, and considers the enduring threat to humanity should AI grow out of control. Pickover provides an entertaining and informative look into when artificial intelligence began, how it developed, where it's going, and what it means for the future of human-machine interaction.

In this Audiobook

  • Tic-Tac-Toe: c. 1300 BCE
  • Talos: c. 400 BCE
  • Aristotle's Organon: c. 350 BCE
  • Ktesibios's Water Clock: c. 250 BCE
  • Abacus: c. 190 BCE
  • Antikythera Mechanism: c. 125 BCE
  • al-Jazari's Automata: 1206
  • Lancelot's Copper Knights: c. 1220
  • Hesdin Mechanical Park: c. 1300 v
  • Ramon Llull's Ars Magna: c. 1305
  • Religious Automata: 1352
  • da Vinci's Robot Knight: c. 1495
  • Golem: 1580
  • Hobbes's Leviathan: 1651
  • The Consciousness Mill: 1714
  • Lagado Book-Writing Engine: 1726
  • de Vaucanson's Duck Automaton: 1738
  • Mechanical Turk: 1770
  • Jaquet-Droz Automata: 1774
  • Frankenstein: 1818
  • Computational Creativity: 1821
  • Babbage's Mechanical Computer: 1822
  • “The Artist of the Beautiful”: 1844
  • Boolean Algebra: 1854
  • “Darwin among the Machines”: 1863
  • The Steam Man of the Prairies: 1868
  • Tower of Hanoi: 1883
  • Electric Bob's Big Black Ostrich: 1893
  • Tesla's “Borrowed Mind”: 1898
  • Tik-Tok: 1907
  • Searches for the Soul: 1907
  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR): 1913
  • Rossum's Universal Robots: 1920
  • Metropolis: 1927
  • Elektro the Moto-Man: 1939
  • Speech Synthesis: 1939
  • Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics: 1942
  • Lethal Military Robots: 1942
  • Artificial Neutral Networks: 1943
  • ENIAC: 1946
  • Giant Brains, or Machines That Think: 1949
  • Turing Test: 1950
  • The Human Use of Human Beings: 1950
  • Reinforcement Learning: 1951
  • Speech Recognition: 1952
  • Natural Language Processing: 1954
  • Dartmouth AI Workshop: 1956
  • Perceptron: 1957
  • Transhumanism: 1957
  • Machine Learning: 1959
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: 1959
  • Licklider's “Man-Computer Symbiosis”: 1960
  • ELIZA Psychotherapist: 1964
  • Face Recognition: 1964
  • Intelligence Explosion: 1965
  • Expert Systems: 1965
  • Fuzzy Logic: 1965
  • Deep Learning: 1965
  • Shakey the Robot: 1966
  • Living in a Simulation: 1967
  • Cybernetic Serendipity: 1968
  • HAL 9000: 1968
  • Mastermind: 1970
  • Colossus: The Forbin Project: 1970
  • SHRDLU: 1971
  • Paranoid PARRY: 1972
  • Genetic Algorithms: 1975
  • Ethics of AI: 1976
  • Backgammon Champion Defeated: 1979
  • Chinese Room: 1980
  • Blade Runner: 1982
  • Autonomous Vehicles: 1984
  • The Terminator: 1984
  • Artificial Life: 1986
  • Swarm Intelligence: 1986
  • Moravec's Paradox: 1988
  • Connect Four: 1988
  • “Elephants Don't Play Chess”: 1990
  • Leakproof “AI Box”: 1993
  • Checkers and AI: 1994
  • Tamagotchi: 1996
  • Deep Blue Defeats Chess Champion: 1997
  • Othello: 1997
  • AIBO Robot: 1999
  • ASIMO and Friends: 2000
  • Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence: 2001
  • Solving the Game of Awari: 2002
  • Roomba: 2002
  • Paperclip Maximizer Catastrophe: 2003
  • Quackle's Scrabble Win: 2006
  • Watson on Jeopardy!: 2011
  • Computer Art and DeepDream: 2015
  • “Call Them Artificial Aliens”: 2015
  • AI on Mars: 2015
  • AlphaGo GO Champion: 2016
  • Autonomous Robotic Surgery: 2016
  • AI Poker: 2017
  • Adversarial Patches: 2018
  • Rubik's Cube Robots: 2018
  • AI Death Predictor: 2018
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