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Here’s a puzzle that humiliated an entire field: by the late 1980s, computers could beat chess masters and prove mathematical theorems — tasks that require years…
Let me be upfront about my bias: I find the word “bubble” both useful and abused. Useful, because asset bubbles are real and they…
In 1973, a British mathematician wrote a report that killed his country’s AI research for a decade. Not a scandal, not a fraud —…
The 1980s were supposed to be AI’s decade. Not in the vague, hand-wavy sense — in the concrete, billions-of-dollars, dedicated-hardware sense. Expert systems were…
If you’ve ever watched a technology go from “this changes everything” to “this is a scam” to “oh, this is just useful now” in…
The history of artificial intelligence isn’t a straight line — it’s a sine wave. Peaks of euphoria, troughs of despair, each generation convinced the…
I’ve spent an unreasonable amount of time reading about the AI winters — the grant proposals, the post-mortems, the sheepish retrospective interviews. Not because…
Every time AI funding hits a new record, someone asks me the same question with a half-smirk: “So when’s the next AI winter?” It’s…
Every winter ends the same way: not with a single dramatic moment, but with an accumulation of changes that eventually becomes undeniable. Nobody rang…
“How long did the AI winter last?” sounds like a simple question with a simple answer — and it’s neither. There were two major…
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