Tracking AI Stories
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AI Winters
This story tells the story of AI's boom-and-bust cycles from the 1950s to 2012, chronicling the field's alternating periods of wild optimism and crushing disappointment.
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AlexNet
In the world of artificial intelligence, there are watershed moments that fundamentally change the course of history. The ImageNet 2012 competition was one such moment.
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Doug Lenat and Cyc
Doug Lenat was a pioneering AI researcher who spent nearly 40 years (1984-2023) building Cyc, an ambitious project to encode all human common sense into a massive knowledge base.
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The Jellyfish and the Flatworm
Approximately 600 million years ago, two very different evolutionary paths emerged in the animal kingdom. These divergent paths offer profound insights about organizational intelligence and AI strategy.
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The Yann LeCun Story
This story chronicles Yann LeCun's journey from a curious teenager in 1970s Paris to a pioneering AI researcher who revolutionized machine learning with convolutional neural networks.