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    Matter, Energy, Information, and Intelligence

    From the struggle of different schools of artificial intelligence to different views on artificial intelligence in general, we can see that there is still a lack of scientific understanding of artificial intel...

    F. Richard Yu, Angela W. Yu in A Brief History of Intelligence (2023)

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    Introduction

    Humans have accomplished countless amazing things in our short history. We walked on the moon, created electronic devices, mastered flight, etc. With less than seventy thousand years, humankind has evolved fro...

    F. Richard Yu, Angela W. Yu in A Brief History of Intelligence (2023)

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    Intelligence in Physics

    After matter was formed in the universe, there rose a natural science, physics, which studies matter, its motion and behavior, and the related entities of energy and force.

    F. Richard Yu, Angela W. Yu in A Brief History of Intelligence (2023)

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    The Metaverse and the Real-World Universe

    Metaverse is undoubtedly a hot word in industry and academia since 2021, and has become a hot new concept in the global technology field recently. At the beginning of 2021, the pre-IPO campaign of the game com...

    F. Richard Yu, Angela W. Yu in A Brief History of Intelligence (2023)

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    Stabilizing the Universe

    The universe we live in is a general term for the vast space and the various celestial bodies with diffused matter that exist in it. Although the origin of the universe is an extremely complex issue, people ha...

    F. Richard Yu, Angela W. Yu in A Brief History of Intelligence (2023)

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    Intelligence in Chemistry

    The story of intelligence continues with increasing levels of abstraction. With the appearance of rich information structure in atoms, such as carbon atoms, increasingly complex molecules were formed. As a res...

    F. Richard Yu, Angela W. Yu in A Brief History of Intelligence (2023)

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    Intelligence in Humans

    It is believed that animals much like modern humans first appeared about 2.5 million years ago. About 70,000 years ago, the cognitive revolution occurred in a species called Homo sapiens in Africa. The brain stru...

    F. Richard Yu, Angela W. Yu in A Brief History of Intelligence (2023)

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    A Brief History of Intelligence

    From the Big Bang to the Metaverse

    F. Richard Yu, Angela W. Yu (2023)

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    Intelligence in Biology

    Earth remains the only place in the universe known to harbor life. The earliest time that life forms first appeared on Earth is at least 3.77 billion years ago, possibly as early as 4.41 billion years—not long...

    F. Richard Yu, Angela W. Yu in A Brief History of Intelligence (2023)

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    Intelligence in Machines

    The idea of building intelligent machines has been around for a long time. The ancient Egyptian and Chinese had myths about robots and inanimate objects coming to life. Philosophers mulled over the hypothesis ...

    F. Richard Yu, Angela W. Yu in A Brief History of Intelligence (2023)