Artificial Intelligence: The second sixth day - Part 2
Its Taking more than a day God may have created man in one day, but its taken us hundreds of years to get to the present state of AI. And even then, todays applications are impressive but primitive compared to organic intelligence and limited in scope. AI really took off with the explosion of computing in the mid-twentieth century. But its been a slow plodding progress, quiet unlike the developments in other areas of computing eg micro-processor development. Early optimism fell into frustration and cynicism. But AI's development was held back mainly by the lack of sufficient computing power. Once computing power became powerful enough AI progressed rapidly. Lets chronicle this journey - atleast the modern part of it; 1956 Allen Newell, Herbert Simon, and Cliff Shaw wrote a computer program which they named the Logical Theorist . It went on to prove 38 mathematical theorems by exploring a search tree , the root of which was the initial hypothesis and each branc