Who the Heck Created AI?
A brief on how the idea of Artificial Intelligence was born
Everything that humanity possesses today, we (almost) always have names to associate with. We thank Issac Newton for discovering the laws of gravity, we credit Alexander Graham Bell for the telephone, we praise Marie Currie for her research on radioactivity, and we point fingers at Robert Oppenheimer for the atomic bomb.
Then who do we appreciate–or blame in some cases–for Artificial Intelligence or AI for short? Whose names do we label as AI inventors?
At a glimpse, it seems as if AI has just been found in recent years. If we must pick a date, AI has just become the talk of town after November 30th, 2022 when OpenAI launched ChatGPT. Since then, new AI apps have been popping up everywhere, social media ads and influencers have been filling us nonstop with how helpful AI is, and AI-related jobs have become the next dream jobs.
The truth is ChatGPT then was merely a trendsetter. What does it mean? When ChatGPT quickly became a hit after its launch, it rapidly raised people’s awareness on AI and their demand on similar product. This set ChatGPT as the product that significantly influences and shapes the direction of the AI market. The usual things then followed suit: competitors playing catch up, floods of AI products, market…
