The Ice Age Returns: The Second AI Winter and Silent Hibernation (1987-1993)
2025-04-15
Exploring the deep causes of the second AI winter, from the collapse of expert systems to the underground revival of connectionism, revealing the most critical turning point in AI development history.
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MIT & Stanford: The Rationalist and Pragmatist Titans of AI
2025-04-13
A deep dive into how East Coast academic rigor and West Coast entrepreneurial spirit created two distinct but equally powerful AI research traditions
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9 minutes
The Towers of Wisdom: Why These Universities Shaped AI's Today
2025-04-03
Exploring the academic DNA and cultural foundations that made certain universities the birthplaces of artificial intelligence breakthroughs
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5 minutes
The Dance of Life Sciences and Computer Sciences: A Parallel and Convergent History of AI and Medicine
2025-03-20
Exploring the fascinating parallel evolution and ultimate convergence of artificial intelligence and medicine from isolated disciplines to revolutionary partnership.
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9 minutes
The Peak of Experts: The Power of Knowledge and the Second AI Wave
2025-03-19
How expert systems transformed AI from academic curiosity to commercial reality in the 1980s, creating the first AI boom and establishing the foundation for modern knowledge-based systems.
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14 minutes
Ambition, Fantasy, and Disillusionment: AI's 'Golden Age' and the First AI Winter
2025-02-23
Exploring the brilliant achievements of 1950s-1970s artificial intelligence and the subsequent arrival of the first AI winter, revealing the profound contradictions between technological ambition and reality's limitations
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12 minutes
Dartmouth's Call: The Official Birth of AI and the Golden Dawn
2025-02-17
Explore the historic 1956 Dartmouth Conference that officially launched artificial intelligence as a field, featuring the Logic Theorist program and the visionary scientists who opened AI's golden age.
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From Myth to Mathematics: How Humanity Conceived 'Artificial Intelligence' Before Computers?
2025-02-01
Exploring the thousand-year intellectual journey from ancient myths of intelligent machines to the mathematical foundations that made modern AI possible.
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