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section 14 · status: live · 5 entries · updated 2026-08-29

History of AI

The field that named itself at a summer workshop, died twice by its own promises, rebuilt itself as statistics, and detonated when three quiet ingredients finally met. Not nostalgia — a pattern library for reading the present.

live · seventy years swept in fifteen seconds — booms, winters, detonation

  1. The founding dreama summer workshop names a field and mortgages its credibility
  2. Winters & thawstwice the field promised, twice the funding froze
  3. The quiet decadesstatistics, GPUs, and a million labeled images
  4. The deep-learning decadefrom AlexNet to ChatGPT in ten compounding years
  5. Reading the presentusing seventy years of pattern to see this moment clearly