{"id":188136,"date":"2026-02-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/how-has-ai-evolved-since-the-1980s-this-ohio-state-alum-says-all-it-comes-down-to-language\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:55:15","slug":"how-has-ai-evolved-since-the-1980s-this-ohio-state-alum-says-all-it-comes-down-to-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/how-has-ai-evolved-since-the-1980s-this-ohio-state-alum-says-all-it-comes-down-to-language\/","title":{"rendered":"How has AI evolved since the 1980s? This Ohio State alum says all it comes down to language."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wosu.org\/2026-02-17\/how-has-ai-evolved-since-the-1980s-this-ohio-state-alum-says-all-it-comes-down-to-language\">How has AI evolved since the 1980s? This Ohio State alum says all it comes down to language.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wosu.org\/2026-02-17\/how-has-ai-evolved-since-the-1980s-this-ohio-state-alum-says-all-it-comes-down-to-language\">https:\/\/www.wosu.org\/2026-02-17\/how-has-ai-evolved-since-the-1980s-this-ohio-state-alum-says-all-it-comes-down-to-language<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-17 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wosu.org\">www.wosu.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Early AI Enthusiasm<\/strong>: Dean Allemang began studying AI in the 1980s with the aim to enhance human intelligence and assist all professions, but became disillusioned as AI did not deliver these early goals.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Role of the Internet<\/strong>: According to Allemang, the internet fulfilled the original vision of AI by making vast information accessible, ultimately surpassing initial AI expectations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Modern Generative AI<\/strong>: Allemang sees modern generative AI, especially language models, as a new development tapping into previously unexplored areas, potentially leading to discussions about artificial general intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Environmental Concerns<\/strong>: Allemang addresses the environmental impact of AI, conducting an experiment to show that the power consumption of generative AI is minimal in comparison to everyday household tasks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Future of AI<\/strong>: Allemang expresses optimism and concern over the future of AI, suggesting it could either advance human civilization or lead to a science-fiction scenario where computers overshadow human concerns.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How has AI evolved since the 1980s? This Ohio State alum says all it comes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/fd86b28\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1608x844+0+36\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5d%2Fba%2F8e50190847dfb7f93ea7d70712fd%2Fgpu-micropchip.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[22,19],"class_list":["post-188136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-general-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188138,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188136\/revisions\/188138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}