Lecture 2 - History Flashcards
Nobel prize for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks
Hopfield and Hinton
Name the machine developed by Hinton
Boltzmann Machines
What did Hopfield develop?
Hopfield Networks
First dream of an AI entity in litterature
The greek god Hephaestus build Talos, a giant intelligent bronze robot
Who killed Talos
Jason of the argonauts
What robots did Hepaestus build besides Talos
Tripods (could run of to meet the gods), waiters, bellows (for iron casting)
Greek Philosofer thinking about automation
Aristole
Who laid the foundation for formal logic
Aristotle
Basic formal logic general observation
all b’s are a
all c’s ar b
therefore all c’s are a
Name of the talking head made of brass
Brazen head
Who owned the Brazen head
The Alchemist Bacon and Magnus
Who made a humanoid mechanical knight
Leonardo da Vinci
When was the humanoid mechanical knight designed
1495
Who made the giant Golem
Rabbi Loew
How did you wake up the giant golem
by putting a paper under his tongue or alternative versions by putting a three letter word for truth (AMT) on his forehead
Original story published by Mary Shelley that describes the attempt of a true scientist to create life.
Frankenstein
When did Mary Shelley publish his famous novel
1818
Chess playing robot from 18th century
the chess playing turk
Which famous person played and lost against the chess robot from the 18th century
Napoleon
Did the chess robot from the 18th century work
No Edgar Allan Poe hypothesized that it did not work.
Trompeteer robot from the 19th century
Automata
Talking machine from 1830-1840
The Euphonia
What paper and by whom descriebs the talking machine from 1830-1840
Paper “Talking Head” by David Lindsey
Name the Robot duck from the 19th century
Vaucanson’s duck
Which philosopher proposed that animals are machines
Decartes
What kind of machines did both Pascal and Leibniz build in the 17th century?
- calculation machines
What machine did Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invent
Lingua Characteristica
Who said this: “It is unworthy of exellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could safely be regulated to anyone else if machines were used”
Leibniz
Who said this: “… how much better will it be to bring under mathematical laws human reasoning”
Leibniz
Difference Engine from 1822
Babbage’s Engines
used to calculate mathematical tables using the method of finite differences (essentially reducing to addition/multiplication)