My personal perspective of advances in artificial intelligence in my five decades of using it

Technology has been moving so quickly in the past few decades that it can be difficult to keep up with all of the technological advancements that have taken place.

I can recall that when I was a child, personal computers did not even exist. Calculators, for that matter, were not commonplace in schools either. I learned how to perform mathematical computations by hand. Complex mathematics were computed using a slide rule. While I had seen a slide rule, I have to say that I had never used one.

Fast forward just two decades and personal computers were entering the marketplace. I had purchased a Commodore 64 and a Commodore 128.

It was not until I was close to 30 years of age that I acquired my first IBM compatible computer, which was the industry standard at that time. I also bought a laptop computer, which was large and cumbersome in comparison to today’s laptops.