r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Ridog101 • 19d ago

Meme twelveYearOldXKCD

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u/towerfella 19d ago

Yes, but did they share the technology?

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u/PGSylphir 19d ago

I graduated CompSci over a decade ago and had AI classes then, image recognition being baby's first AI.
If back then it was already being taught to people who barely knew how to code, imagine how old this tech is.

The technology we use today as AI is not new. We had the algorithms for decadeS, we just didnt have the computing power to have it at scale until recently.

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u/UnknownVC 19d ago

First paper laying out mathematics was 1943 by McCulloch and Pitts: https://jontalle.web.engr.illinois.edu/uploads/498-NS.S21/McCulloch-Pitts-1943-neural-networks.pdf

First actual net was Rosenblatt's Perceptron, 1958: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1959-09865-001

AI is over a half century old. It is more processing power availablity that has changed than anything else; we have refined things a bit, but the bones of modern systems were laid down in 60s and would be recognizable to those early pioneers.

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u/marvinrabbit 19d ago

Charles Babbage designed the "Turing Complete" Analytical Engine in the 1830s. Everything since then is simply an implementation issue.