Once the stuff of science fiction, Artificial Intelligence is now a part of everyday life. But the story of how it came into being is not often told. This episode reveals its roots in neuropsychology and observations of the physical processes in the brain that lead to learning. The theorists who Donald and John discuss began their work at a time when behaviorism, which by and large disouraged attempts to look within the mind, dominated academic psychology. But despite a few ‘winters’, AI has developed to the point where it is now all-pervasive, and a driving force of change in learning.
- 1:20 Introducing AI Learning
- 8:06 Eric Kandel (1929 – )
- 13:29 Donald Olding Hebb (1904 – 1985)
- 23:29 Warren Sturgis McCulloch (1898 – 1969) & Walter Pitts (1923 – 1969)
- 37:37 Frank Rosenblatt (1928 – 1971)
- 44:16 David Everett Rumelhart (1942-2011) & Geoffrey Everest Hinton (1947–)
- 57:06 Demis Hassabis (1976–)
- 1:07:23 Summing Up
Read Donald’s book, Artificial Intelligence for Learning: https://www.koganpage.com/product/artificial-intelligence-for-learning-9781789660814
- Kandel bit.ly/3oiiYDo
- Hebb bit.ly/3kq3z2A
- McCulloch & Pitts bit.ly/3kn6Fo8
- Rosenblatt bit.ly/31PZmih
- Rumelhart & Hinton bit.ly/3bXU3zd
- Hassabis bit.ly/3qrYgmT
The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html
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