#aihistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #aihistory, aggregated by home.social.
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Oh, wow, look at you! Recreating vintage science papers with #LaTeX like it's the 19th century. 🤓 Because nothing screams "cutting-edge" in the AI age like spending your time on star charts and log tables. 🚀✨
https://github.com/Foadsf/vintage-latex #vintageScience #AIhistory #starCharts #logTables #HackerNews #ngated -
This parody written as a 1985 technology magazine advertisement.
The fictional "CrAI IntelliCluster" stores the knowledge of millions of encyclopaedias, understands questions through tokens, remembers conversation history, supports external data sources, and can ingest organisational documents. https://medium.com/@chribonn/bite-the-machine-that-knows-everything-april-1985-c0a9502df920 #AIHistory #ArtificialIntelligence #RetroComputing #TechHumour #GenerativeAI #FutureOfTechnology #TTMO #Medium #Satire #Parody
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RE: https://zirk.us/@MidniteMikeWrites/116885838068621416
The history of technology can metaphorically be represented as competing train stations. AI’s history is mixed across different subfields suggesting that the next breakthrough might not come from building on Transformers. #AIhistory #machinelearning #ai
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As the #Cyc project winds down, one of its main contributors, Benjamin Rode, is attempting to migrate as much as possible of its upper #ontology to RDF. It's an ambitious project, much like Cyc itself.
Cyc arose from the early #AI research community, and Ben has a fascinating perspective on that milieu as well.
We tried to focus on the Cyc>RDF project, but there was just too much good #AIhistory to share.
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As the #Cyc project winds down, one of its main contributors, Benjamin Rode, is attempting to migrate as much as possible of its upper #ontology to RDF. It's an ambitious project, much like Cyc itself.
Cyc arose from the early #AI research community, and Ben has a fascinating perspective on that milieu as well.
We tried to focus on the Cyc>RDF project, but there was just too much good #AIhistory to share.
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In 2017, a machine translation paper contained the architecture for ChatGPT. Nobody announced it.
The transformer let every part of a sequence attend to every other part directly. Pretraining at scale made performance improve as a power law. Scale enough, and few-shot learning emerged.
ChatGPT hit 100M estimated monthly users in two months. What these systems do internally is contested. #AIHistory #MachineLearning
https://jameshoward.us/2026/07/01/attention-is-all-you-need/
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The artificial life tradition of the 1980s made a claim neither symbolic AI nor neural networks had made: that intelligence might be emergent rather than designed. You do not program the behavior. You set up the conditions. The field was right.
AlphaGo Zero learned to play Go through self-play. Hillis proved the idea on the Connection Machine in 1990. Some ideas arrive early and wait. #AIHistory #ArtificialLifehttps://jameshoward.us/2026/06/10/simple-rules-surprising-worlds/
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Researchers who had 'artificial intelligence' on their CVs in the late 1980s quietly rebranded as 'machine learning' practitioners. That wasn't cynical. It was accurate. 'Machine learning' described what the surviving methods were actually doing. The AI winter sorted the field. Those who stayed built what came next.
https://jameshoward.us/2026/06/04/the-second-winter/ #AIHistory #MachineLearning
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In 1961, a robot took a job no one wanted. The same robot would have been helpless in a kitchen. Danger isn't a property of an environment. It's a relationship between an environment and the body encountering it. New post on the ecology of work and what robots taught us about human fitness:
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Google celebrates America’s 250th anniversary with AI-driven history experience
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/google-america-250/
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Did you know? In 1966, a chatbot named ELIZA could simulate conversation so well that people believed it was a therapist! 🤖💬 It’s proof that even back then, humans were drawn to AI. #AIHistory #TechTrivia
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Who is the father of AI, and how did artificial intelligence really begin? This article explores the pioneers, history, and ideas that shaped modern AI. Full post here:
#AIBase #AIBaseNig #ArtificialIntelligence #AIHistory #TechPioneers #AINews #FutureOfAI #NigeriaAI -
Call for Applications: ACM History and Archiving Fellowship program, due 28th February 2026
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) History Committee plans to support up to 5 research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Call is at link below.
#historyofcomputing #softwarehistory #aihistory #historyhttps://history.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/ACM-HC-fellowship-CFP-2026-final.pdf
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From McCulloch-Pitts neurons (1943) to ChatGPT: 82 years of AI evolution. Explore breakthrough moments including Turing's test, AI winters, AlexNet's revolution, transformers, and AlphaFold.
The complete timeline:
https://theurb.co/ai-timeline#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #TechNews #FutureTech #Innovation #Technology #AIHistory #NeuralNetworks #ChatGPT #GenerativeAI #ComputerScience #TechEducation #AIRevolution #DataScience #TechTrends #DigitalTransformation #AIResearch
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Mechanical cogitating engines, based on Mr. Babbage's apparatus, will transcend arithmetic to encompass full human cogitation. These artificial intellects will possess vast mechanical memory systems, storing all human knowledge, and perform logical inferences, discern patterns, and conduct intellectual discourse via intricate gear trains and clockwork. #MechanicalEngines #Babbage #AIHistory #EarlyAI #CognitiveMachines
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Rule-Based Expert Systems: The Mycin Experiments (1984)
https://www.shortliffe.net/Buchanan-Shortliffe-1984/MYCIN%20Book.htm
#HackerNews #RuleBasedExpertSystems #Mycin #Experiments #AIHistory #ExpertSystems #1984Tech
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Talk tomorrow on history, power, & ironies & paradoxes of rhetorical & infrastructural appropriations of AI.
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Today marks 70 years of AI. On this occasion, Francesca Rossi shared her reflections on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/francesca-rossi-34b8b95_ai-aiethics-airesponsibility-activity-7368032991849222144-zpbU?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAyDlBcBHMYihw8J1hcoYK1fhmPmSSaQdTQ
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Ah yes, another riveting deep dive into the prehistoric days of AI when chatbots were about as lifelike as a toaster 🤖⚡. The author marvels at #ELIZA like it's the second coming, but let's be real, it was just a fancy way to print out your daddy issues 🤯. Who knew 1960s secretaries were the true pioneers of therapy bots? 😂📜
https://www.learningfromexamples.com/p/why-why-why-eliza #AIhistory #ChatbotNostalgia #TherapyBots #PrehistoricAI #HackerNews #ngated -
🧠 Brainstorming Time!
Who is often called the father of Machine Learning?
✍️ write your answer in the comments box!
#MachineLearning #AIHistory #Brainstorming #ArtificialIntelligence #DataScience #TuxAcademy
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Isaac Asimov introduced his famous Three Laws of Robotics in 1942, establishing a hierarchy for robotic decision-making, like prioritizing preventing harm over following orders. #Robotics #AIHistory