Histories

Bell Labs' last trick

AI Histories #20: Support Vector Machines

Oct 9, 2025 • Harry Law

The Forgotten Man

AI Histories #19: Nicolas Rashevsky

Sep 25, 2025 • Harry Law

Sorcerer and cell

AI Histories #18: The Lighthill report

Sep 11, 2025 • Harry Law

AI Histories #17: McCullough and Pitts' experimental epistemology

Aug 28, 2025 • Harry Law

Unnatural Selection

AI Histories #16: Ronald Fisher, statistics, and genetics

Aug 14, 2025 • Harry Law

A Mysterious Science

AI Histories #15: The Dartmouth Summer Research Project

Aug 7, 2025 • Harry Law

If you can't stand the heat

AI Histories #14: Boltzmann machines

Jul 31, 2025 • Harry Law

The Turing test doesn’t measure intelligence

AI Histories #13: The genesis of the imitation game

Jul 24, 2025 • Harry Law

A Room Without a View

AI Histories #12: The Machine Stops

Jul 17, 2025 • Harry Law

Why, why, why, ELIZA?

AI Histories #11: When the first chatbot escaped containment

Jul 10, 2025 • Harry Law

Lies, damn lies, and statistics

AI Histories #10: Abraham Wald and the origins of machine learning

Jul 3, 2025 • Harry Law

It's all Greek to me

AI Histories #9: The syllogism and thinking machines

Jun 26, 2025 • Harry Law

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