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Evolution of Technology: From Early Computers to Modern AI Advancements

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Robert J. Marks
Date
July 6, 2026

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, History

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A. Vaswani et al., ADALINE, Agentic AI, and transformer architectures, Backpropagation, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), Deepfake diffusion models, Deepfakes, diffusion models, Diffusion models vs GANs, Featured, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Hebb's Law, Kunihiko Fukushima, McCulloch–Pitts Neuron, Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP), Paul Werbos, Rosenblatt's Perceptron, Transformer models}

Superintelligence? AI’s History vs. the Myth

_{Here is the history in a nutshell outlining how we got to where we are today.} _{Robert J. Marks
July 6, 2026

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The breakthroughs have come from human creativity. Computers have served as powerful tools for implementing innovations, but they did not invent them.

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Robert J. Marks
Date
November 1, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Physics

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Bernie Widrow, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), error backpropagation, John Hopfield, Neural networks, Nobel Prize in Physics, Paul Werbos}

Are We Now Giving Nobel Prizes to Cheerleaders?

_{Even though both John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton are brilliant researchers, there were much more obviously deserving recipients} _{Robert J. Marks
November 1, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Physics}

I still find it hard to see the connection between physics and neural networks but if it’s there, Paul Werbos and Bernie Widrow should have won the Nobel Prize.

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Erik J. Larson
Date
February 22, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

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Artificial intelligence and inference, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), Geoffrey Hinton}

Why, Despite All the Hype We Hear, AI Is Not “One of Us”

_{It takes an imaginative computer scientist to believe that the neural network knows what it’s classifying or identifying. It’s a bunch of relatively simple math} _{Erik J. Larson
February 22, 2024

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The AI scientist’s dream of general intelligence, often referred to as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), remains as elusive as ever.