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AI

Artificial Intelligence

AI isn’t singular,
it’s a conglomeration 
of all the algorithms 
since nineteen hundred and fifty
when the imitation game
computed machinery and intelligence,
followed by checkers
followed by thinking machines
followed by LISP. 

My only question: 
has Artificial Intelligence 
learned how 
to cook a goose?

NOTES

LISP: an abbreviation of "list processing” a family of programming languages.

1950: Alan Turing publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," proposing the "Imitation Game" (Turing Test) to assess machine intelligence.

1952: Arthur Samuel creates a checkers program that learns to play better over time, marking early machine learning.

1956: The Dartmouth Conference officially launches AI as a field, with John McCarthy coining the term and bringing researchers together to explore "thinking machines".

 Late 1950s-1960s: Early AI systems like the Logic Theorist (proving math theorems) and the Perceptron (an early neural network) are developed, alongside the creation of the LISP programming language. 

~From AI Overview (AI giving a history about itself.. Can we trust it?)
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Goldsmith Avatar
January 15, 2026 at 9:37 AM
What a creative/picture ~ write you have here. Love Both... I enjoyed reading. Have a wonderful/creative day writing away.................
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January 15, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Thank you. In current culture almost nothing started just yesterday.
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