Intelligent Approach to AI

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Monday, January 12, 2026

Four independent inventions of writing are most commonly recognized [9]  – in Mesopotamia c. 3400 – c. 3100 BC, in Egypt c. 3250 BC, [10] [11] [7] in China before c. 1250 BC, [12] and in Mesoamerica before c. 1 AD. [13]

Ancient civilizations like the Egyptians and the Sumerians invented numeral systems to solve practical arithmetic problems in about 3000 BCE.

The en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus between 2700 and 2300 BC

Napier's Bones : Napier published his version in 1617

The slide rule : The slide rule was invented around 1620–1630

Mechanical calculator : In 1642, Blaise Pascal invented the first operational mechanical calculator [1] with better tens-carry.

Electronic calculator : The first solid-state electronic calculator was created in the early 1960s.

Conventionally, the ABC would be considered the first electronic ALU (arithmetic logic unit)  – which is integrated into every modern processor's design.

ENIAC (/'?niæk/; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)[1][2] was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer , completed in 1945

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

We can follow a similar road in travel. Humans walked; then they invented horseback riding and dog sleds. We can be sure that there were riders killed when thrown from horse, when sleds slammed into a tree trunk. Stagecoaches and buggies were safer, perhaps an early form of mass-transit; progress associated with collisions and deaths. Railed trains of materials wagons were augmented by railed trains of passenger coaches and deaths. Faster passenger trains brought more deaths (and mental anguish). Alsofor aircraft. And space-craft.

Each step in progression advanced the frontier. Motor-cars/automobiles have sent human minds on a trajectory labelled "accidents", although I note with muted satisfaction that today the news media are switching to "collisions". Airbags and ABS systems try and fail to compensate for human error and failures of self-driving transport.

Times go on, and we move on.

The AI of today will find itself relegated to the early days of motoring – punctures in two tyres, running out of petrol with long distances between petrol stations (see "Australia"). I look back to the days of assembly-language programming, long gone for me.

AI as we know it today will be seen, one hundred years from now, as a furious bloom of possibilities that slowly settled down into something relatively benign.

Don't hold your breath, That time will come long after you and I are dead.

Friday, January 16, 2026

If you have watched a video about exploration you will have seen the advantages of a drone; this video at the 6m 0s mark. This is the value of Artificial Eyesight ("A Eye"!). Our eyes are now on stalks a mile long!

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