The Future of Artificial Intelligence

The 21st century generation serves as a bridge between the past and future of artificial intelligence. Looking back at recent history, the small actions of great minds, consciously or unconsciously, have laid the foundations of artificial intelligence on a common ground.

What is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence, briefly, is a type of intelligence displayed through machines imitating human intelligence within a computer system. The development of artificial intelligence has rapidly increased exponentially. This situation leads to artificial intelligence playing an active role in various aspects of people's social and individual lives, particularly in the workplace and production processes.

Looking at today's conditions, it can be observed that artificial intelligence is present in every segment and every field of society. Artificial intelligence systems have become an indispensable part of modern human life. However, the future of artificial intelligence raises various question marks in people's minds. For example, apart from utopian issues such as the development of artificial intelligence and its escape from human control, the increasing use of artificial intelligence in technologies every day divides people's perspectives on artificial intelligence into positive and negative aspects. The idea that artificial intelligence, which makes human life more comfortable and faster, will one day largely replace humans in the workplace is a negative perspective on the future changes of artificial intelligence. However, artificial intelligence, which is increasingly used to perform more efficient actions under human control, not only in social or work life but also in the field of science, enables humans to reach much further and in much shorter timeframes than their current capabilities. From this perspective, the future of artificial intelligence is one of the cornerstones of human life.

In this age where we stand between the past and future of artificial intelligence, it is possible to say that we are still in the early stages of artificial intelligence. Because the emergence and development of AI have occurred relatively recently. In his book "The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence," published in 2010, author Nils J. Nilsson outlines the historical outline of this technology.

A Brief Look at the History of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is a new generation technology that pushes the boundaries of the human mind. The rapid development of artificial intelligence today is essentially due to the accumulated knowledge. Therefore, although not much time has passed since its inception, its development is quite rapid. In general, the development stages of artificial intelligence as it approaches our day are as follows:

• The English mechanical engineer Charles Babbage designed and operated the Analytical Engine, laying the groundwork for the concept of programmable computers between 1833 and 1871.

• On February 19, 1946, Alan Turing presented a detailed design of a computer with a programmable memory for the first time.

• The term "artificial intelligence" was first used by John McCarthy in a workshop in 1956.

• In the early 1960s, the first face recognition techniques were developed with a CIA-supported program. In the 1970s, the program was updated to recognize and distinguish individuals.

• In 1967, the first chess match between computers was held in history, ending in a draw. In the same year, in April, a computer scoring at a moderate level in a chess match against a human entered the annals.

• In Japan in 1972, the first humanoid robot, named WABOT-I, was made.

• The first "AI Winter" occurred between 1974 and 1980. The reason was the negative evaluation of artificial intelligence studies in publications, leading governments to stop allocating funds for AI studies.

• After 1980, there was a competition in artificial intelligence between countries, and the competition between the UK and Japan accelerated AI studies. However, due to the failure of expert systems to fulfill their promises, the Second AI Winter, which lasted from 1987 to 1993, emerged.

• In 1985, the first portable computer was produced and launched on the market.

• Artificial intelligence studies became part of human life with the Roomba electric vacuum cleaner in the early 2000s.

• GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) was discovered by Ian Goodfellow in 2014. This system allowed for the creation of realistic fake productions.

• In 2016, Sophia, a social humanoid robot, was developed by Hanson Robotics, a Hong Kong-based company.

• In 2018, Google released BERT. BERT, based on transformer network, became the world's best chess player by playing against itself.

• In 2020, Alphafold, an artificial intelligence program that ma