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WWII
The use of technology in WWII helped turn the tides of the war. It was able to help with decoding or ways to help with the warfare. After the war was done it made people thing how far they could push technology, an maybe they could push it to the point where it could think for itself. -
Artificial Intelligence Recognition
Like said after WWII, people were wondering how far they could push technology. This led to the goal of artificial intelligence. It was brought up at a conference in Dartmouth. That is considered to be one of the rise ups of the research into artificial intelligence. -
Moore's law
Gordon Moore was a worker at Fairchild Semiconductor, and became observant of the things he was working with over time. He was able to see that the number of transistors doubled in a chip every 1-2 years. This helps to make devices smaller h=and have more powerful chips. This theory/law is something that is used even today when creating technology or updating old ones.
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Affective Computing
Picard was an assistant professor at MIT and was intrigued by being able to measure someone's emotions. Eventually she released something called affective computing. It shared her ideas and thought with the world regarding that. -
Emotient
Emotient was given an award for its ability to gather facial images. These images were used to help with defining facial expressions more. -
Robot Assistant
It is believed that technology will get to a point that it will be able to form connections with humans. The example given in the story is that a girl grew up with a robot which became her friend and her assistant later in life. The robot is able to tell the girl everything she wants to know before she even asks due to the pattern recognition that it has learned.