If I did a TED talk on AI.....
.....this would be my script.... “Magenta and cyan. Do you remember those colours? I do. Two bright and exotic colours of my early childhood. Colours from the early 1980’s when we would all sit there as kids, type in a page of coding taken from our computer manuals (those manuals that were only printed in black and white because colour print was expensive!), wait patiently while the cassette whirred, bleeped and buzzed and hope (we would actually cross our fingers sometimes); hope these bright colours would appear on screen as patterns or shapes. Of course along the way we hoped we didn’t get an error - something some of you may remember was called a syntax error. “Syntax error, string too long” was the typical error I got back from the bulky grey box many times. I can at this point see half a sea of blank faces out there when I’m mentioning these things. “A piece of string?”, “what’s a cassette?” some are thinking. Or for those slightly older “why is he talking about cassettes an...