The first AI to come into the world didn’t appear in Silicon Valley. It appeared in the Silicon Forest. The AI was outsourced, developed at a university lab. The computing power was in a warehouse, one of the many cloud-computing facilities available. The first bit of intelligence to appear wasn’t caused by either. That came from a spin-off group of al Qaeda, a lone hacker wasting time by practicing password-cracks. For some reason, university students don’t think passwords are important on something like an AI. Continue reading →