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M01.1 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

AI grew from several older questions

Long before anyone said "artificial intelligence," people had worked out how to reason with rules, weigh odds, and build machines that correct themselves. Meet the old ideas every AI system still borrows.

LESSON OVERVIEW11 min lesson

Lesson overview

Long before anyone said "artificial intelligence," people had worked out how to reason with rules, weigh odds, and build machines that correct themselves. Meet the old ideas every AI system still borrows.

What you’ll explore

  • Distinguish logical deduction, uncertainty, feedback control, and learning as contributions to the foundations of AI.
GO TO THE SOURCE

Original explanations, connected to the research.

Wiener — Cybernetics, first published 1948Buchanan — A (Very) Brief History of Artificial IntelligenceTuring — Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
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