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The Age of Intelligent Machines is a non-fiction book about artificial intelligence by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. This was his first book and the Association of American Publishers named it the Most Outstanding Computer Science Book of 1990. [1] It was reviewed in The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor.
This book is considered by some to mark the beginning of the AI winter of the 1970s, a failure of confidence and funding for AI. However, by the time the book came out, methods for training multilayer perceptrons by deep learning were already known (Alexey Ivakhnenko and Valentin Lapa, 1965; Shun'ichi Amari, 1967). [9]
The word automaton is the latinization of the Ancient Greek automaton (αὐτόματον), which means "acting of one's own will".It was first used by Homer to describe an automatic door opening, [2] or automatic movement of wheeled tripods. [3]
The word cybernetics refers to the theory of message transmission among people and machines. The thesis of the book is that: society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between ...
Steam engines promoted automation through the need to control engine speed and power.. The introduction of prime movers, or self-driven machines advanced grain mills, furnaces, boilers, and the steam engine created a new requirement for automatic control systems including temperature regulators (invented in 1624; see Cornelius Drebbel), pressure regulators (1681), float regulators (1700) and ...
Text messaging became widely used in the late 1990s worldwide, except for in the United States of America where text messaging didn't become commonplace till the early 2000s. [ citation needed ] The digital revolution became truly global in this time as well - after revolutionizing society in the developed world in the 1990s, the digital ...
The book is divided into three sections: Chapters 1 through 6 describe "the fundamental characteristics of the second machine age," based on many examples of modern use of technology. Chapters 7 through 11 describe economic impacts of technology in terms of two concepts the authors call "bounty" and "spread."
The foundations for the Age of Artificial Intelligence were laid during the latter part of the 20th century and the early 2000s. Key developments included advancements in computer science, neural network models, data storage, the Internet, and optical networking, enabling rapid data transmission essential for AI progress.