Concurrents: Sight and Site
If you are seeking a wonderfully foundational book about the origins and nature of artificial intelligence (AI), an insightful explanation awaits you in The Worlds I See by Dr. Fei-Fei Li. Dr. Li is a computer scientist and distinguished scholar at Stanford University who brings first-hand knowledge to the story of the development of AI. She was one of the foundational scientists in the emergence of AI but she presents that saga in the context of her personal journey as an immigrant in the United States, making for a compellingly warm, engaging story about a complex scientific topic, a rare combination. But that’s not the subject of this column. The earliest stages of the development of AI were rooted in the fundamental structure and functioning of the human brain. The question was, could non-human computers hope to replicate the wildly vast and amazing, often mysterious capabilities of the human brain? …
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