Unit 1.1 โ€” What Is AI? Taxonomy & History

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[Verse 1]
In forty-nine-fifty, the dreaming began
Turing's machine and his masterful plan
"Can we build minds that think just like ours?"
The question that launched us beyond the stars
Symbolic logic ruled the early scene
With expert systems, precise and clean

[Chorus]
Narrow, general, super intelligence
Three towers rising in sequence
Rule-based wisdom, stats that learn
Connections firing at every turn
From winter's chill to blazing spring
Map the paradigms that make minds sing

[Verse 2]
The Chinese Room sparked fierce debate
Can syntax alone make consciousness wait?
While winter froze the funding streams
Researchers nursed their neural dreams
Back-propagation cracked the code
As data rivers freely flowed

[Chorus]
Narrow, general, super intelligence
Three towers rising in sequence
Rule-based wisdom, stats that learn
Connections firing at every turn
From winter's chill to blazing spring
Map the paradigms that make minds sing

[Bridge]
Expert systems knew their facts
Watson played with language pacts
AlphaGo conquered ancient stone
While GPT learned text alone
Now foundation models reign
Multimodal, agent-trained

[Verse 3]
Embodied cognition claims the flesh
Makes thinking more than neural mesh
Hybrid systems blend it all
Rule and stat and neural call
Twenty-twenty-six awaits
What intelligence creates

[Outro]
Timeline stretching through the years
Each milestone conquering old fears
From symbolic dawn to deep learning's might
The paradigms dance in algorithmic light

Unit 1.2 โ€” Mathematics for AI โ†’