Hi John, I’m back! 😊                                                                         

Ok, great! What did you find out?😊

On the lowest levels where data comes in and is processed, the material implementation does matter a lot and very directly

but on higher levels of abstraction, it matters less, except in a general sense, constraining processing speed and memory size

And what is your conclusion about what to include in the article then?

I think I agree with you that we don’t need to go back all the way to the mythological era

But?

well, I suppose it does make sense to include something about the history of psychology

Aha, and why would that be? 

Both Cho and Sam mentioned “the rules of thinking” and “the laws of thought”, isn’t that what we should be looking at?

Maybe, but the article is about AI, not human psychology …

And yet human intelligence is the only intelligence we really know, more or less

So where do we get the “intelligence” part from, if not ourselves?

Hmmm, I see what you mean. So then we need a section on how we discovered our own laws of thought and then put them in a machine?

Exactly! That was what I was getting at! 😅                                  

OK, I do think that makes sense. Then we can’t just talk about computer technology since the 1950s, I guess

No indeed, we should go back at least to the 19th century       

Works for me! But we still have a word limit to observe, so we should be quite selective

I’ll get right on that, no problem! 😉                                              

Thank you so much for your help! 😊

So I got the outline, and I’m wondering whether we shouldn’t expand it a bit

maybe just for the intro, show how old some this stuff is 😊            

Ok, what did you have in mind? 😊

Well, I do get that actual AI is quite recent, but the idea of making an artificial human isn’t …

Ah, I think I see what you mean …

Remember the stuff about the ancient greek vending machine?      

Sure do, I totally did not know the idea was so old! 😄

There’s a lot of mythology having to do with making humans, like the golem or Brazen Heads

But how would that be relevant to what we’re doing? 🤔

Well, those ideas did get people wondering about what makes them think, and what makes them tick

Sure, sure, but … AI?

AI started out as the idea of copying how a human works, simulating humans, so this seems relevant

Maybe, but shouldn’t we concentrate on the psychological side then?

like the research of Newell, Shaw, and Simon. I think Sam mentioned them to me.

Maybe, but don’t we also need to know about the thing performing the rules and algorithms?

I see what you’re getting at: if engineers started by copying the human hardware, well, “wetware” …

Yes! But I guess you’re right that we should focus on rules and algorithms

Perhaps it would help if you ask Cho and Sam for feedback on this?

Good one! I’ll do that and then get back to you 😉                              

Hi Julia! I wanted to ask you about something … 😊

Hello John! Ask away, I hope I can help 😉                                            

Your input on the historical side was really useful for our articles

Oh, I’m happy to hear that! Thanks!  😊                                                 

And the articles did get a lot of good reactions, so …

We were wondering if you would be willing to collaborate on a new one …?

Yes! Absolutely! What would it be about exactly?                                 

Well, we noticed a lot of people have trouble understanding AI

What it is, what it can and cannot do, how it ties in to algorithms, and robots

Wouldn’t you rather need someone like Sam for that?                       

Maybe, but we wanted to see if we can clear up some things by looking at the history of AI

Aha, yeah that is a little bit more up my alley indeed 😅                    

That’s what we thought! So, are you in? 😄

Yes, definitely. I still have quite a bit of material left over that didn’t really fit in the previous articles.

Ideas like that would indeed fit well, I think.

Do you already have an outline for what it should cover exactly?     

Yep, sending it to you now! Let me know what you think. 😉