On Intelligence
Yusuf Brima
Outline
● Part 1: The Primal Desire
● Part 2: The Cognitive Revolution
● Part 3: Artificial Intelligence
● Part 4: The Road Ahead
Part 1
The primal desire
To create echos of intelligence
Source: aimagazine.com
Part 2
The cognitive revolution
Agrarian Age
Source: www.thoughtco.com
Industrial Age
Source: article1000.com
Information Age
Source: www.sigfox.com
Part 3
Artificial Intelligence
Myths and Legends
Source: wikipedia.org
Greek myth Talos acted as guardian for the island
of Crete.
Engraving from 1651 with Pygmalion in the
foreground and the Propoetides in the
background.
Source: wikipedia.org
Myths and Legends
Source: wikipedia.org
19th century engraving of Homunculus from Goethe's
Faust part II
Paracelsus (1493 – 1541)
Source: wikipedia.org
Automata
Source: wikipedia.org
African Songye Power Figure
Source: wikipedia.org
Ismail al-Jazari (1136 –1206 CE):
programmable automata (1206 CE) Source: wikipedia.org
Roger Bacon (1219/20 – 1292 CE): Brazen
head
Formal Reasoning
Aristotle (384–322 BC): Syllogism
Source: wikipedia.org Source: schoolworkhelper.net
Euclid (300 BC): Elements
Source: schoolworkhelper.net
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (c. 780
– c. 850): Algebra
Formal Reasoning cont’d
William of Ockham (c. 1287 – 1347):
Ockham’s Razor
Source: wikipedia.org
René Descartes (1596 – 1650):
Algebra and Geometry
George Boole (1815 – 1864): Boolean
Logic
Source: wikipedia.org Source: wikipedia.org
Computer Science
Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz
( 1646 – 1716): Calculus, Binary
System, Cybernetics, Control
Theory
Source: wikipedia.org
Augusta Ada King, Countess of
Lovelace (1815 – 1852):
Mathematician and first programmer
(Analytic Engine)
Charles Babbage (1791 – 1871): Father
of Computing
Source: wikipedia.org Source: wikipedia.org
Computer Science Cont’d
John von Neumann (1903 – 1957):
Von Neumann Computer
Architecture
Source: wikipedia.org
Claude Elwood Shannon (1916 –
2001)
: Information Theory, Cryptography,
Electrical Engineering
Source: wikipedia.org
Precursors to AI: Cybernetics
● Norbert Wiener with
cybernetic bug “Palomilla”
Source: www.researchgate.net
Precursors to AI: Neuroscience
Source: www.sutori.com
● Introduced neural models for
computation
John McCarthy
Source: engineering.stanford.edu
Rosenblatt’s Perceptron
Source: news.cornell.edu
Turing’s Test
Source: wikipedia.org
“The Imitation Game”
Source: www.biography.com
Game AI
Source: wikipedia.org
Arthur Lee Samuel (1901– 1990)
Christopher Strachey (1916 – 1975) Dietrich Prinz (1903– 1989)
Source: wikipedia.org
Source: wikipedia.org
Symbolic AI
Herbert Alexander Simon (1916 – 2001) Allen Newell (1927 – 1992)
Source: wikipedia.org
Source: wikipedia.org
Created Logic Theorist: an
Automatic Theorem Solver
(ATS)
Eliza
Link: http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/psych101/eliza.htm Source: spectrum.ieee.org
Joseph Weizenbaum (1923 – 2008)
IBM Deep Blue
Source: spectrum.ieee.org
Deep Learning
Source: https://alammehwish.github.io/cssa_ecml_pkdd_2021/
DeepMind Alpha Go
Source: https://www.handelsblatt.com
DeepMind Alpha Fold
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
Voice Assistants
Source: https://www.bticino.com/news/smart-home/new-voice-assistants-for-smart-home/
OpenAI GTP-3
Source: https://medium.com/
Self-driving Cars
Source: https://industrywired.com/are-we-ready-to-have-future-dotted-by-self-driving-cars/
Part 4
The road ahead
Bias
Source: https://blog.impress.ai/index.php/2020/06/16/8-ways-to-reduce-unconscious-bias-in-hiring/
Fairness
Source: https://syncedreview.com
Algorithmic Justice
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
Decolonisation
Source: https://ecfr.eu/article/commentary_digital_decolonisation_the_eus_new_ideas_on_data_and_artificial/
The end
Thank you!

On Intelligence