Origins
Can Machines Think? Turing and the Origin of a Question
How a mathematician's thought experiment in 1950 turned a philosophical puzzle into a research programme — and why his question is still debated.
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Origins
How the idea of thinking machines appeared — from the first theories of computation to the return of neural networks.
Origins
From Dartmouth to the AI Winters
The field got its name in a 1955 proposal and met its first serious setbacks less than twenty years later. A short account of early optimism and what it taught.
Origins
How Deep Learning Came Back
Neural networks were set aside more than once. Better training methods, large datasets and fast hardware brought them back — and changed the field.