HistoryA shared dataset organised the field more effectively than any theory didAgreeing on a common problem, a common test and a common way of scoring it turned a collection of…Jan 20, 2026 · 3 min read
HistoryThe training algorithm everyone uses was discovered more than onceThe method for assigning credit through the layers of a network arrived independently in several fields…Jan 16, 2026 · 3 min read
HistoryAnything that starts working stops being called artificial intelligenceEvery task the field has solved was reclassified as ordinary engineering shortly afterwards, which leaves…Jan 9, 2026 · 3 min read
HistoryA network for reading handwriting worked commercially long before anybody called it a breakthroughThe architecture behind the vision boom was designed, trained and deployed in a working industrial system…Nov 2, 2025 · 4 min read
HistoryThe field published everything, and then some of it stoppedAn unusually open research culture built the technology, and the retreat from that culture is recent…Oct 30, 2025 · 3 min read
HistoryRecognising speech took fifty years and three complete changes of methodThe task was attempted almost as early as anything in the field, resisted every approach tried on it, and…Oct 28, 2025 · 3 min read
HistoryEarly robots tried to think before moving, and the reaction against that shaped the fieldThe first mobile robots built a model of the world, planned within it and then acted, and the argument that…Oct 26, 2025 · 3 min read
HistoryTwo communities worry about this technology and they have been arguing for a decadeConcern about harm from these systems developed along separate tracks with different questions, different…Oct 24, 2025 · 3 min read
