Deep dives into AI history, algorithms, and ideas.
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AI history keeps changing its costumes, but the plot has a familiar rhythm: a dazzling spring, a theory of inevitability, and then the bill.
Topics: foundations, industry, ai safety.
For two centuries, scientists assumed intelligence meant certainty. Then the probabilists showed up — and in the best possible way, ruined everything.
Topics: foundations, neural networks, deep learning.
The story of Ilya Sutskever — the scientist who helped build modern AI, tried to stop it from the inside, and then raised $32 billion to try again.
Topics: foundations, neural networks, deep learning, nlp, generative ai, reinforcement learning, computer vision, ai safety, industry.
How the idea behind backpropagation moved forward through time before AI finally perceived it.
Topics: neural networks, deep learning, foundations.