Appendix
APPENDIX ONE
CONFIDENTIAL: Presidential Brief for the President: The State of Artificial Intelligence, March 2040, by Eric Maddax, Secretary of Technology
The first wave of artificial intelligence in the early part of the century was handcrafted or niche knowledge like scheduling logistics, TurboTax, playing chess, and other software algorithms designed for specific purposes. An AI’s ability to perceive was limited. In these systems, the AI could not learn very well. The entities could not handle abstract thinking like a human, but they did have some degree of reasoning from a strictly computational sense.
This first wave brought us self-driving cars, traffic light control, online banking, and other advances. The second wave of AI focused more on statistical learning, which sa
