AI Literacy · The three waves
The Three Waves of AI
AI has reinvented itself three times. Each wave is a different answer to one question:
how do we make a machine do something smart?
Tap each wave to see the idea, an example, and the wall it hit.
Wave 1
Symbolic AI
1950s – 1980s
Write the rules by hand.
Wave 2
Machine Learning
1980s – 2010s
Learn the rules from data.
Wave 3
Deep Learning
2010s – now
Learn the features too.
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