Home Our Company Products Solutions ... Using AI History A papyrus, that was bought in a Luxor antique shop by Edwin Smith in 1882, was prepared representing 48 surgical observations of head wounds. The observations were stated in symptom-diagnosis-treatment-prognosis combinations as: IF a patient has this symptom, THEN he has this injury with this prognosis if this treatment is applied. This was the first known expert system. th C Leviathan, written by Thomas Hobbes (15881679), was published. In it he proposes that humans collectively, by virtue of their organization and use of their machines, would create a new intelligence. George B. Dyson refers to Hobbes as the patriarch of artificial intelligence in his book, "Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence," p7, 1997. th C Leibnitz and Pascal invented mechanical computing devices. Pascal was 19 years old in 1642 when he invented an eight-digit calculator, the Pascaline. In 1694, Gottfried Liebnitz invented the Liebnitz Computer, which multiplied by repetitive addition, an algorithm still in use today. Leibnitz also conceived of a 'reasoning calculator' for interpreting and evaluating concepts, but realized the problem was immense because of the great interconnectedness of concepts. Jonathan Swift anticipated an automatic book writer in Gulliver's Travels. | |
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