I used to write a column on AI in the early days of this century when I was actively involved in working in the field of AI, as it was then, before the machine learning systems of today’s AI.
Some of them seem still pertinent today or at least are interesting history.
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December 2002 June 14, 2026 This issue had more about Dan Simmon’s “Hyperion Trilogy” which drew it’s inspiration from Tom Ray’s experiments in getting intelligence to evolve in what he called a digital soup. Evolving Machine Intelligence “Everything we know about life is based on one example of life: Life on Earth. Everything we know about intelligence is based on … Continue reading "December 2002" |
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November 2002 June 14, 2026 This was from the first newsletter. Note that the current AI represents a vastly superior way of pattern matching, down to the level of pixels in art work (which is why it requires so much computing power). It has since conquered the game of Go and I always loved the way Hyperion referred to a … Continue reading "November 2002" |