Archive - Learning From Examples

How chess became AI's model organism

AI Histories #8: The royal game is a testbed for machine intelligence. Why is that?

15 hrs ago •

Academics are kidding themselves about AI

Ten suggestions for better criticism

Jun 17 •

Uncle Sam's electronic brain

AI Histories #7: The perceptron and its critics

Jun 12 •

Critique of Pure Reasoning Models

Reasoners aren't perfect, but they don't need to be

Jun 10 •

Backpropagation is older than you think

AI Histories #6: Backprop begins in the Second World War, not with Werbos or Rumelhart

Jun 5 •

Taste is all you need

Discernment in the age of the machine

Jun 3 •

May 2025

Please ignore the man behind the curtain

AI Histories #5: The Mechanical Turk

May 29 •

Yes, linear algebra can 'know' things

Five ways of thinking about thinking machines

May 27 •

Self-sustaining systems

AI Histories #4: Automata theory

May 22 •

Romantic Machines

Is AI heir to the Enlightenment?

May 20 •

Press start: A guide to Learning From Examples

The feature map and the territory

May 19 •

The great Hopfield network debate

AI Histories #3: A bitter clash about machine learning's finest hour

May 16 •

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