Post AxFAteXFqMaf7EQDce by Zardoz@gigaohm.bio
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 (DIR) Post #AxCgC4KrAlPbRz0LIW by ontheway@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-15T18:21:17.299089Z
       
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       Was trying to find information today on Jayanta Bhattacharya's family background, but no luck so far. It's interesting that info like who his father and mother are is "private" and is not available for public scrutiny.That line of research led me to Stanford University, and Joshua Lederberg. I was not aware of Lederberg's pivotal role at Stanford during the 1960s and '70s in the development of Artificial Intelligence for use in Biology.Here's a YouTube video on his pioneering work in the development of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford.15-min cliphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej8RUM9HhEwHere's a link to the NIH website to view and download the book “Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Organic Chemistry” (1980)https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/document/101584906X7379/PDF/101584906X7379.pdfAnd here's a Stanford “Human Centered AI” propaganda piece. Touches on AI and Biology at 6:41 min in, but oh so briefly and superficially.9-min cliphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx9lizr1hdY
       
 (DIR) Post #AxFAteXFqMaf7EQDce by Zardoz@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-16T15:21:40.113868Z
       
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       he was certainly early on the AI propaganda—calling algorithms AI!
       
 (DIR) Post #AxFAtfl7IJGyuVunrs by ontheway@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-16T17:02:49.330589Z
       
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       Maybe it depends on what the term "AI" means. If it means sentience or consciousness that's one thing, but if it means "machine learning" perhaps that's something else?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxFAtgePyhVbg1my48 by Zardoz@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-16T19:02:29.927522Z
       
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       Yes!!  Being a “futurist” He could mean either or both!  The concepts have been firmly in place for generations .AI is a catch-all term now, maybe like “virus”.  The audience is free to make their own false assumptions based on a relentless mythologizing. What I see that is “new” about AI  is the huge data sets and the computational horsepower and actual Megawatts needed to accomplish the calculations.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxFAthX0hjB4PLKZ9s by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-16T21:32:24.120641Z
       
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       back in late 1960s and early 1970s, AI was heuristic algorithms trying to do something that looked "intelligent" in a limited human context.  not too successful at the time.  chess, then go.  a little hand-eye with a robot arm and a camera eye playing Instant Insanity (4 colored cubes to stack so no duplicate colors in a row).i like the part about Lederberg liking LISP - it was awesome when i learned it - kind of orthonormal to FORTRAN.  John McCarthy was a genius for inventing it.i knew Minsky before Epstein did ... he was my BS thesis advisor, sort of - handed me off to Thomas Binford.