Artificial Intelligence: Brief History, Its Existence on Steem, and Case Example: Image Creation on Bing

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^{The robot head image was generated on Bing Image Creator. Banner created with Adobe Photoshop 2021.}

AI History - The Outline

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a part of our lives today. Do you know that its history dates back to the Ancient Greeks with its myth of Talos, a robot (living machine) that protect Crete from its enemy. Various modern scientific developments including Boolean logic developed by George Boole in the 1850s have laid the foundation for the development of what we know today as Artificial Intelligence.

The ‘Turing Test’ proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 after he published the paper ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’ can be seen as the beginning of AI becoming a practical reality. Turing's famous line from Computing Machinery and Intelligence, which seems to underpin and explain what he did and imagined, reads, ‘I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think?”’

Made with Adobe Photoshop 2021. Turing photograph was taken from here.

Computers, of course, are the most important prerequisite device in this regard. Therefore, the development of AI is largely determined by the development of computer capabilities.

In 1951, the first chess application called Checkers was written by Christopher Strachey (a British computer scientist). However, his computer had low capabilities, until he learnt that the University of Manchester had a more advanced Ferranti Mark I computer. During his visit to the university, he met Turing, who encouraged him to continue developing the Checkers application.

Five years later, in 1956, the term Artificial Intelligence was officially introduced at the Dartmouth Conference. This term was coined by John McCarthy. Along with him, the conference notables included Herbert Simon, Allen Newell & Marvin Minsky. The Dartmouth Conference was held in the summer at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire and is considered the official start of the field of artificial intelligence (AI). This year, on Friday, 17 October, Dartmouth will again host the Dartmouth AI Conference which has been held annually since 2023.

Since then, optimism about artificial intelligence, which is expected to benefit human life, has increased. Slowly but surely, the capabilities of AI departed from: solving simple mathematical equations to the creation of Shakey in the 1960s, a robot with autonomous navigation capabilities developed between 1966 and 1972. Check out Shakey the Robot in this video from YouTube.

Up to the 1980s, expectations in this field were not supported by the development and capabilities of computer technology, ideas had always preceded device capabilities, similar to the case of Strachey and his Checkers programme.

The 1990s saw tremendous development in the field of Machine Learning which has been a game-changer for the development of AI technology. The biggest achievement of this era and the biggest news of its time was that a chess computer developed by IBM, named Deep Blue, defeated the then world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, for the first time in 1996 when Deep Blue won 1 out of 6 games against the Russian Grand Master, and it was the first time a computer won a match against the world champion under tournament conditions. In the 1997 rematch, Deep Blue won the decisive 6th game in just 19 moves!

Since 2010, AI capabilities entered a new phase with the further progress of Deep Learning, a subset of Machine Learning that uses artificial neural networks to learn from data and make predictions. In 2012, in the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) competition, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) called AlexNet developed by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey Hinton demonstrated a major breakthrough in image recognition technology, contributing tremendous progress to the development of AI technology. The main uses of Deep Learning are for speech, image, and natural language recognition. So this is the most likely answer to the question, ‘How can robots answer our questions in different languages?’

The rest, since 2018 we saw Google come up with BERT, then we witnessed the arrival of Open AI (which was the forerunner to the birth of ChatGPT), and so on.

AI on Steem : What Could Go Wrong?

In the Steem environment, the existence of artificial intelligence is not new. It can be said to have appeared since the beginning of Steem's history. The easiest example is the existence of anti-plagiarism bot accounts, such as cheetah, steemcleaner, and the more recent one -but has gone inactive as well- @the-gorilla's endingplagiarism, which come and comment on plagiarised articles, with the ability to detect similarities in article content with articles written outside the Steem environment. This is of course very useful.

In addition, to date, several Witnesses have their own bots with several purposes, mainly: self-promotion. One of the easiest to spot is probably the bots that come to vote for articles (written by users who vote for their witness programme) and leave identical messages under it.

Artificial intelligence in the form of bots has also emerged as tools to assist in Steemians activities, for example Cotify, a Telegram bot with several capabilities including getting certain notifications and searching for specific users' Club statuses. Before the split that gave birth to hive.blog, Discord had GINA, a bot with similar capabilities to Cotify. GINA (short for General Instant Notification Automaton) was developed by neander-squirrel. After the split, GINA stopped serving the Steem blockchain.

Illustration of GINA as seen here.

Currently, one of the bots that is making a name for itself in Steem blogging is witnesstools created by @justyy. This bot, according to its developer, uses Grok technology from X, and will answer any question with the command !ask. The developer promised to add more commands through time. A list of currently available commands can be seen here.

And maybe, @steemchiller is currently preparing a SteemWorld bot. In my imagination: a bot that can be summoned with certain commands typed in the comment bar to present relevant information, for example, the prompt ?sw sp aneukpineung78 ( "?sw" is prefix to summon the SteemWorld bot) will summon the bot to present data of own, received, delegated and effective SP owned by the aneukpineung78 account at that time. Interesting, isn't it?

The above has been examples of the good side of the existence and use of AI on and for the Steem blockchain. The problem is the threat that AI will be used to automatically generate contents and therefore Steem loses creativity and originality which are amongst the main core values in the Steem ecosystem. So, the problem is in how AI is used, not its existencea.

Let’s Generate Images With Bing Image Creator

Notes:

Microsoft Bing Image Creator is currently Powered by DALL·E 3.
In Bing Image Creator, each user has 15 chances to perform fast creation every day.
And each time the user presses the [Create] button, Bing will create 4 images.

Image 1 : Please Welcome The Steem Rangers
- Prompt : Orange mouse robot full body, centered, standing, cartoon art with strong stroke.
  
  And I have used Adobe Photoshop 2021 to combine the four generated images and created a banner of the Steem defence mouse squad called Steem Rangers. Catchy name, eh?
Image 2 : What about a collaborative graphic novel? Isn’t it possible?
- Prompt : Office orange mouse worker, orange tie, with Clark Kent glasses, standing firmly, cartoon like (basically the prompt was inspired by @solperez in one of her comment couple days ago, added few words of mine).
  
  The generated image has been used as the editorial image element of this article of mine.
  
  And maybe I can start my very own AI-generated-images comics titled The Adventure of Steem Rangers: The Mouses of the House. What do you think, @wakeupkitty? Hey, look! A cat has joined!

Thanks

Thanks to @steemit-market for sparking this idea through their AI-themed writing contest, anyone can participate (deadline 25 June), see the contest post here. I hereby invite @bisdako, @joslud, @waqarahmadshah, @ronnie10, @almaguer, @suryati1, @hamzayousafzai.

Sources and Reading Suggestion

My Introductory Post | Telegram | Discord | X

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