Chief AI Officer Program: ML Essentials

Introduction: AI Today and in the Past. Probability and Bayes Rule

Vadim Sokolov

George Mason University

Brief History of AI

Mechanical machines

Robots and Automatic Machines Were Generally Very Inventive: Al-Jazari (XII Century)

Hesdin Castle (Robert II of Artois), Leonardo’s robot…

Mechanical machines

Jaquet-Droz automata (XVIII century):

Mechanical machines

  • But this is in mechanics, in mathematics/logic AI it was quite rudimentary for a long time

Logic machine of Ramon Llull (XIII-XIV centuries)

  • Starting with Dr. Frankenstein, further AI in the literature appears constantly …

Shennon’s Theseus

  • YouTube Video
  • Early 1950s, Claude Shannon (The father of Information Theory) demonstrates Theseus
  • A life-sized magnetic mouse controlled by relay circuits, learns its way around a maze.