Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

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The Evolution of AI

The evolution timeline depicting man evolving from a primate to a human to a walking robot

by Jon Chun and Katherine Elkins Generative AI is a transformative force, reshaping both arts and humanities computing. Its recent evolution retraces our own human evolution, only on a vastly accelerated scale. In the Beginning Was the Word Working with…