What's with all these questions?
Is AI definable? If so what is it?
What do you mean here?
Also, my ICT Teacher was talking about AI's before school let out and he said that it will start to become a possibility when our processor speeds start reaching as high as 10GHz.
Don't think i've ever heard or read anything about the reason people got into THAT field. It was the mid sixties when i was introduced to computer programming working at Bell Labs. The labs was working on a digital communication program that could run a whole building where the hardware was housed for phone service. The evolution of telephone communication is interesting...before 1965 human beings ran and maintained all of the equipment that provided phone service to an area. To call outside of "the area" you at times needed the assistance of an operator. The new system that we were working on shrunk the size of the building and reduced the cost of operation by building and developing a system called ESS. The "programmers" of that system seemed so spaced out that it was impossible to have a conversation with any of them...they thought about nothing else except this challenge.
My job was to take the program that they wrote which was stored on huge reels of tape and transfer the info to aluminum "cards" with X number of tiny "magnets" on them. There were 64 cards facing left and 64 cards facing right and they were hand loaded into this device that pushed the cards into a a particular location in a mainframe bey. Once the program was transfer ed i was given another location to "load" the cards. Once the cards were loaded another set of programmers/ analysts would stand around this giant "tea cart" with thousands of lights each associated with an on off toggle, these analysts would flip switches and wait for print outs with mostly zero's and ones along with a few other symbols, and they would "read" the information.
The analysts would talk to me and "explain" questions that i had about all those numbers. They would
give me answers that i still didn't understand. One of the analysts tried to talk me into learning the language but it seemed far too obscure for me.
In a way it's still too obscure for me to learn but i wonder if it's not possible to hire someone to write a program for me and how would i know what a fair price would be. It's not like buying a new computer or microwave; with those you kinda know what a fair price is by doing a google search.
Not sure i answered your question but that's where and when my curiosty started.
