FROM TURING TO TRANSFORMERS
Andrew Grill · 2024
This chapter reviews what has come so far and make some broad predictions about what will likely happen over the next few months. It presents a short history lesson about artificial intelligence (AI), from Turing to transformers. The phrase “artificial intelligence” describes the field of computer science focused on creating machines that can mimic human-like behaviour. What makes an AI more or less advanced, or a specific tool better or worse at a given task, is how it “thinks”. In machine learning, the AI tool needs to organise the data before it can do anything with it. Deep learning, on the other hand, is a subset of machine learning designed to let a machine train itself to do a task. Generative AIs are a category of AI tools that can apply advanced techniques like deep learning to create things.