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A Narrative History of Artificial Intelligence

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This book addresses the history of artificial intelligence through the author’s experiences from the 1960s, when AI was a dream to give computers far more power than the progress for industrial technological advancement. The book starts from the AI pioneering days including what the author witnessed and impressed, then the episodes during AI boom of the 80s and 90s when the author was involved in ANSI X3J13 committee work as a principal member, translating Common Lisp books into Japanese, leading committee works in Japan for global standardization, and visiting MIT AI Lab for totally three years. The book points out that neural network research started in the 1980s, highlighting the DARPA report dated in 1988. The last episodes and thoughts include the experiences with business school students after the author moved from engineering school. The former half is from a view of an engineering mind and then the latter is based on how the author struggled with business-minded people to explain the core of AI.

This book is suitable for anyone interested in the history of Artificial Intelligence. The content is easy to follow, even for readers without prior knowledge of AI. Experts will also find something new and thought-provoking.

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Frontmatter
Chapter 1. The Dawn and Footprints of the Pioneers: Time Traveling to the Pioneering Days
Abstract
When did research and development of artificial intelligence (AI) or man-made “intelligence” begin? If you think “neural network” research as AI research began after the development of ordinary digital computers, it's not true. I the history of digital computer development since the 1940s, there have been people who wanted to know how the human brain works and tried to build a computer that would be equivalent to the human brain.
Masayuki Ida
Chapter 2. Field Formation of AI and IT
Abstract
This chapter deals with the period from the 1960s to the 1980s for the progress of IT and AI. In a nutshell, this is a period of consolidation and integration of disciplines and the steady evolution of digital computers.
Masayuki Ida
Chapter 3. The Lisp World and Common Lisp: 1960–1990s
Abstract
The basic ideas of Lisp appeared in “Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I” [47], written in 1960, and supported by an implementation on the IBM 704.
Masayuki Ida
Chapter 4. Struggles for the Next Step During the 1980 and 1990s
Abstract
To see the origins of artificial intelligence (AI) in digital computing, one needs to look again at the state of hardware and computer science-related affairs in the five years or so around 1985.
Masayuki Ida
Chapter 5. Deep Neural Networks
Abstract
Neocognitron is a neural network with the configuration shown in Fig. 5.1. It is a hierarchical multi-layered neural network by Kunihiko Fukushima [1] published in 1980.
Masayuki Ida
Chapter 6. Growth and Branching of Natural Language Processing
Abstract
 In the field of language, although there has been a long history of continuous work, there was a large distance between linguistic research and practical technology development. With the advancement of natural language processing research, it became clear that there were many hurdles to overcome one after another.
Masayuki Ida
Chapter 7. Taking on New Challenges
Abstract
The penetration of digital computing into corporate activities has been underway since the 1960s. However, the explosive deep learning boom since 2015 has been widely touted as a major game changer, and various previously unseen case studies were introduced and “enabled” as realistic ones.
Masayuki Ida
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
A Narrative History of Artificial Intelligence
verfasst von
Masayuki Ida
Copyright-Jahr
2024
Verlag
Springer Nature Singapore
Electronic ISBN
978-981-9707-71-3
Print ISBN
978-981-9707-70-6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0771-3

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