When searching for facts about AI, this one is more likely to appear on top. AI may seem like a recent development in technology at times. However, artificial intelligence has existed since the early 1900s, so it is not a new concept. Even though the biggest breakthroughs didn’t happen until the 1950s, many early experts were responsible for making it possible.
An AI-generated portrait titled Edmond de Belamy sold at the prestigious auction house Christie's for a surprising $432,500 in 2018. The image was created by a system that learned from a dataset of 15,000 historical portraits.
One of the earliest AI programs, created in 1952 by Arthur Samuel, was designed to play checkers and eventually became better at the game than its programmer.
Even the developers who create complex AI models don't always understand exactly how the AI arrives at a specific decision. This "black box" problem is a significant concern for AIs used in high-stakes fields like medicine or finance, where transparency is crucial.
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