Although advances in computing technologies have made can making machine learning more popular than ever, it’s not a new concept. The origins of machine learning date back to 1950, according to a Forbes article. External link Speculating on how one... moreAlthough advances in computing technologies have made can making machine learning more popular than ever, it’s not a new concept. The origins of machine learning date back to 1950, according to a Forbes article. External link Speculating on how one could tell if they had developed a truly integrated artificial intelligence (AI), Alan Turing created what is now referred to as the Turing test, which suggests that one way of testing for whether or not the AI is capable of understanding language is to see if it is able to fool a human into thinking they are speaking to another person.
In 1952, Arthur Samuel wrote the first learning program for IBM, this time involving a game of checkers. The work of many other machine learning pioneers followed, including Frank Rosenblatt’s design of the first neural network in 1957 and Gerald DeJong’s introduction of explanation-based learning in 1981.
In the 1990s, a major shift occurred in machine learning when the focus moved away from a knowledge-based... less