These days we hear a lot about Artificial Intelligence (AI), but many folks I speak to seem to have little appreciation for what it’s all about – and why it’s so important. If you’re curious, here is my take on the past, present and future of this discipline. Where we’re coming from Artificial Intelligence has gone through a number of phases in the past seven decades. In the fifties there was the vision, articulated by Alan Turing, that the newly invented electronic computer will attain the capabilities of human-like thought. Then, in the sixties and seventies, computers became powerful enough.. Read more