Saturday, August 24, 2024

In the beginning...


First edition - 1963






Part 1 -  Artificial Intelligence


Section 1 - Can a Machine Think? by A.M.Turing









 


The 1995 edition:



Currently available from MIT and Amazon


Computers and Thought showcases the work of the scientists who not only defined the field of Artificial Intelligence, but who are responsible for having developed it into what it is today. Originally published in 1963, this collection includes twenty classic papers by such pioneers as A. M. Turing and Marvin Minsky who were behind the pivotal advances in artificially simulating human thought processes with computers. Among the now hard-to-find articles are reports of computer programs that play chess and checkers, prove theorems in logic and geometry, solve problems in calculus, balance assembly lines, recognize visual temporal patterns, and communicate in natural language. The reports of simulation of cognitive processes include computer models of human behavior in logic problems, deciding on common stock portfolios, and carrying out social interaction. Models of verbal learning behavior, predictive behavior in two-choice experiments, and concept formation are also included.

Articles by : Paul Armer. Carol Chomsky. Geoffrey P. E. Clarkson. Edward A. Feigenbaum. Julian Feldman. H. Gelernter. Bert F. Green, Jr. John T. Gullahorn. Jeanne E. Gullahorn. J. R. Hansen. Carl I. Hovland. Earl B. Hunt. Kenneth Laughery. Robert K. Lindsay. D. W. Loveland. Marvin Minsky. Ulric Neisser. Allen Newell. A. L. Samuel. Oliver G. Selfridge. J. C. Shaw. Herbert A. Simon. James R. Slagle. Fred M. Tonge. A. M. Turing. Leonard Uhr. Charles Vossler. Alice K. Wolf.



Sunday, August 11, 2024

Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro API for AI enabled apps

 Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro API for AI enabled apps



On 14th May 2024 at the annual Google I/O Developers Conference, the focus was entirely on AI. Google introduced the Gemini 1.5 Pro API, now available to Google developers globally.  Since then, I've been studying how to use the Gemini API by developing an app called Garden, which allows you to ask any question of a selected image of a plant. In order to create apps with the Gemini API, you need to use the latest feature drop version of Android Studio: Koala. 


More details of what's new in Android Studio (as of May 2024) here: https://youtu.be/2wOfYgIMf-A


AD 11/8/2024


In the beginning...

First edition - 1963 Part 1 -  Artificial Intelligence Section 1 - Can a Machine Think? by A.M.Turing   The 1995 edition: Currently availabl...