Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, I wanted to go back in time a little bit and actually talk about the history of AI. Typically, I'm talking about news and AI or interviewing people that are working on, you know, some of the biggest AI companies. But I wanted to talk a little bit about the history because I've been researching it lately and personally for me, it is definitely not boring. There's just so many wild twists in this. And I think,

you know, if this is an area that we all spend so much time focusing on, there's so much money

in the world being poured into it, I want to go back and talk a little bit about some of the

background that's been, you know, that basically laid the foundation for what we have in AI

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So it's actually before computers were very powerful at all.

So people are already kind of asking the question, can machines think?

And if you go back to the 1940s and 1950s, computers were, you know, they're basically just glorified calculators.

I mean, we've all seen the pictures of these computers that are, you know, the size of a room when they got more advanced.

But before that, there were size of the house.

And before that, it was like basically the size of like a warehouse, right, for one single computer.

And so even back then, there was a whole bunch of these kind of visionary thinkers that believed that these machines could eventually reason or learn or maybe even mimic human intelligence. And of course, there's like,

there's a lot of funny twists and in all of this we'll get into. But I think one of the earliest

turning points was the idea that thinking itself could just basically be reduced to kind of like

math and logic. So if human reasoning

followed rules, then kind of the theory was that you could encode those rules into a machine.

And that was basically the foundational belief of the early AI. And so in 1956, this officially got a

name. There was a group of researchers that were gathered for a workshop and they coined this artificial intelligence.

And that's basically the moment that most people consider to be kind of like the birth of the field of AI that we have today.

So this early A that I obviously was, you know, what they thought it could do was extremely optimistic.

I think it was wildly optimistic. So basically these

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