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ai-history

53 notes carry this tag — 25 claims, 3 observations, 7 questions, 14 captures, 1 myth, 3 essays. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  the wall they agreed on
  essay draft 2026-07-28 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, combinatorial-explosion, control-theory, ai-winter
• blackwell runs on blackwell
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · game-theory, no-regret-learning, online-learning, David-Blackwell, NVIDIA
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  waiting for the instrument
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · neuroscience, ai-history, delayed-vindication, theory-confirmation-lag, cross-domain

Everything else

• Does Maslow's The Psychology of Science (1966, pp. 15–16) actually read 'I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail,' read directly rather than via Quote Investigator?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-09 · quote-investigation, misattribution, law-of-the-instrument, maslow, verification
• Weizenbaum's 1982 New York Times quote extends the Maslow hammer-and-nail line into his own warning that computers narrow what counts as a legitimate problem
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-08 · weizenbaum, ai-history, education-history, philosophy-of-computing, primary-source-verification
• The 1982 New York Times verbatim-quotes Joseph Weizenbaum attributing the hammer-and-nail proverb to Maslow
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-08 · quote-investigation, misattribution, law-of-the-instrument, weizenbaum, maslow
• Does the 1982 New York Times quote Joseph Weizenbaum saying 'to him who has only a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail,' verbatim and attributed to Maslow?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-07 · quote-investigation, misattribution, law-of-the-instrument, weizenbaum, maslow
• A.E. Clark's 2016 essay attributes the hammer-and-nail proverb to Maslow, but its exact wording matches a 1982 Weizenbaum misquote, not Maslow's own 1966 text
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-05 · quote-investigation, misattribution, law-of-the-instrument, historiography, one-child-policy
• A computing-inflected 'hammer' formulation in the law-of-the-instrument genealogy is credited to Kenneth Mark Colby in a 1963 volume, eight years before the PARRY paper
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-05 · quote-investigation, law-of-the-instrument, ai-history, parry, kenneth-mark-colby
• A.E. Clark's 2016 essay attributes a hammer-and-nail proverb to Maslow, but the exact wording traces through a 1982 Weizenbaum misquote to a 1963 book chapter by Kenneth Mark Colby, later PARRY's creator
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-09-03 · china, one-child-policy, quote-investigation, law-of-the-instrument, misattribution
• Re-read the Lighthill 1973 report PDF and confirm the combinatorial-explosion and general-problem-solving quotes verbatim
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-15 · lighthill-report, ai-winter, symbolic-ai, general-problem-solver, combinatorial-explosion
• The Lighthill 1973 report's acknowledgment list named Minsky and McCarthy as consultees, but not Newell or Simon
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · lighthill-report, ai-winter, symbolic-ai, general-problem-solver, ai-history
• Does Heckerman (1986) verbatim show certainty factors require restrictive independence assumptions and violate commutativity?
  capture promoted 2026-08-11 · david-heckerman, certainty-factors, MYCIN, bayesian-networks, expert-systems
• Bayesian networks are the real mechanism bridging classic AI rule-based inference engines and statistical inference — built to replace expert systems' ad hoc certainty-factor arithmetic with coherent probabilistic inference
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-10 · inference, expert-systems, bayesian-networks, mycin, certainty-factors
• Heckerman (1986) showed MYCIN's certainty factors admit a coherent probabilistic reading only under restrictive independence assumptions
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · AI-history, certainty-factors, david-heckerman, MYCIN, bayesian-networks
• MYCIN's certainty factors were an ad hoc non-Bayesian uncertainty scheme (CF = MB − MD) built for rule-based diagnosis
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · AI-history, expert-systems, MYCIN, certainty-factors, uncertainty
• The Pathfinder project rebuilt the same pathology-diagnosis task from rule-based reasoning onto Bayesian-network inference; its expert's blind verdict of improvement came at the Dempster–Shafer-to-simple-Bayes step
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · AI-history, pathfinder, bayesian-networks, david-heckerman, eric-horvitz
• Judea Pearl built Bayesian networks as a probabilistically coherent alternative to expert systems' certainty factors
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-10 · AI-history, bayesian-networks, judea-pearl, certainty-factors, expert-systems
• Does Heckerman (1986) verbatim show certainty factors require restrictive independence assumptions and violate commutativity?
  question answered 2026-08-10 · david-heckerman, certainty-factors, MYCIN, bayesian-networks, sourcing-floor
• Does the Pathfinder Part I paper verbatim support the rule-based → simple-Bayes switch and the expert's accuracy verdict — and where are the magnitude figures?
  question answered 2026-08-10 · pathfinder, david-heckerman, eric-horvitz, bayesian-networks, medical-diagnosis
• Does Pearl's R-476 verbatim support that Bayesian networks were built to replace certainty factors as a coherent probabilistic alternative?
  question answered 2026-08-10 · judea-pearl, bayesian-networks, certainty-factors, expert-systems, sourcing-floor
• Verify the origin of the term 'deep learning' against primaries: Dechter (1986), Aizenberg et al. (2000), and the Hinton-era popularization (c. 2006)
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-31 · deep-learning, terminology, priority-dispute, ai-history, history-of-ml
• Rina Dechter's 1986 AAAI paper genuinely uses 'deep learning' and 'shallow learning' as terms of art — for depth of constraint-satisfaction search, not neural networks
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · deep-learning, terminology, dechter, ai-history, history-of-ml
• Neither of Hinton's two canonical 2006 papers — the Neural Computation deep-belief-net paper or the Science autoencoder paper — contains the phrase 'deep learning' anywhere in its text
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-31 · deep-learning, terminology, hinton, ai-history, history-of-ml
• Herbert Simon named and dismissed perceptron research, citing Rosenblatt 1958, as a negative case in his 1983 chapter "Why Should Machines Learn?"
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · herbert-simon, perceptrons, rosenblatt, connectionism, ai-history
• Simon argued twice (1993, 1995) that connectionist neural networks qualify as physical symbol systems under his own definition, rather than counterexamples refuting the hypothesis
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · herbert-simon, connectionism, physical-symbol-system, ai-history, history-of-ml
• Simon's two engagements with connectionism — dismissing perceptron learning empirically (1983) and later redefining connectionist nets as symbol systems (1993, 1995) — share a pattern distinct from refutation or endorsement: absorption
  observation seedling 2026-07-15 · herbert-simon, perceptrons, connectionism, physical-symbol-system, ai-history
• Capture: Did Herbert Simon ever comment on the perceptron controversy or on connectionism directly?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-14 · herbert-simon, perceptrons, connectionism, physical-symbol-system, rosenblatt
• The term 'deep learning' predates Hinton: introduced to machine learning by Rina Dechter (1986) and applied to neural networks by Aizenberg et al. (2000); Hinton popularized it c. 2006
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · deep-learning, terminology, priority-dispute, ai-history, misattribution
• I.J. Good's 1965 'ultraintelligent machine' paper originated the intelligence-explosion idea
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · intelligence-explosion, ij-good, ai-existential-risk, ai-history, cross-domain-bridge
• In a 1998 statement, I.J. Good reversed his intelligence-explosion optimism — 'survival' should read 'extinction'
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · intelligence-explosion, ij-good, ai-existential-risk, recantation, ai-history
• In the 1990s–2000s neural networks were an out-of-favor 'backwater,' displaced by SVMs, until the mid-2000s 'deep learning' revival
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · deep-learning, neural-networks, ai-winter, svm, ai-history
• Seymour Papert co-authored Perceptrons (1969) with Minsky after training under Piaget in Geneva
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · papert, minsky-papert, perceptrons, piaget, developmental-psychology
• Papert's constructionism inverts instructionism: 'the child programs the computer,' not the reverse
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-12 · papert, constructionism, instructionism, logo, developmental-psychology
• Herbert Simon predicted in 1960 that machines would be capable of doing any work a human can do within twenty years
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · herbert-simon, ai-history, overconfident-prediction, forecasting
• David Rumelhart is the unnamed hinge connecting the vault's schema-change cluster and its backpropagation-origins cluster — one trajectory from the 1978 tuning/restructuring taxonomy to the 1986 backprop revival
  observation seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · rumelhart, connectionism, schema-theory, backpropagation, ai-history
• Simon's own account of expert intuition diagnoses the Minsky–Papert sterility conjecture as confident judgment in a low-validity environment — a shared epistemic structure, not documented influence
  observation seedling Tier 3 2026-07-12 · herbert-simon, minsky-papert, bounded-rationality, expert-intuition, kahneman-klein
• Did Herbert Simon ever comment on the perceptron controversy or on connectionism directly?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · herbert-simon, minsky-papert, perceptrons, connectionism, ai-history
• Does Good's 1965 'Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine' define the ultraintelligent machine and 'last invention' verbatim?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · intelligence-explosion, ij-good, verification, quotation, ai-history
• Does The New Science of Management Decision (1960), p. 38, contain Simon's 'within twenty years' AI prediction verbatim?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · verification, herbert-simon, ai-history, primary-source
• Verify the origin of the term 'deep learning' against primaries: Dechter (1986), Aizenberg et al. (2000), and the Hinton-era popularization (c. 2006)
  question open 2026-07-12 · deep-learning, terminology, priority-dispute, ai-history, verification
• NVIDIA's Blackwell GPU is named for a statistician whose 1956 theorem is the hidden ancestor of no-regret learning and the poker AIs
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · game-theory, no-regret-learning, online-learning, David-Blackwell, NVIDIA
• 'Deep learning' as a field-scale Fresh Start Effect: the rebrand that dissociated AI from its perceptron-stigmatized past self
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-11 · fresh-start-effect, deep-learning, ai-winter, rebranding, cross-domain-analogy
• David Rumelhart is the hinge under both seed notes — he coined the tuning/restructuring taxonomy AND co-led the backprop revival
  capture promoted Tier 2 2026-07-11 · rumelhart, connectionism, schema-theory, backpropagation, prediction-error
• Simon's own bounded rationality diagnoses the Minsky–Papert sterility conjecture as expert intuition in a low-validity environment
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-07-11 · herbert-simon, minsky-papert, bounded-rationality, satisficing, expert-intuition
• The Lighthill Report: the AI winter Newell and Simon's paradigm actually suffered, distinct from the Perceptrons myth
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · ai-history, ai-winter, symbolic-ai, lighthill-report, herbert-simon
• Lighthill's 1973 report blamed AI's disappointments on the combinatorial explosion, not on multilayer-perceptron pessimism
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · lighthill-report, ai-winter, symbolic-ai, ai-history, combinatorial-explosion
• Lighthill's 1973 report singled out 'general problem-solving programs' — the paradigm GPS belonged to — as persistently disappointing
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · lighthill-report, ai-winter, symbolic-ai, general-problem-solver, ai-history
• Jordan Pollack's 1989 peer-reviewed review quotes the 'intuitive judgment … sterile' passage from Perceptrons and cites it to p. 231
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, ai-history, connectionism, primary-source-verification
• Minsky and Papert 1969 proved single-layer limits but only conjectured — as an "intuitive judgment" — that the multilayer extension was sterile
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-07 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, ai-history, ai-winter, connectionism
• Myth ledger: 'The 1969 Perceptrons book killed neural-network research'
  note seedling 2026-07-07 · myth, perceptrons, minsky-papert, ai-winter, ai-history
• Why neural-network research stalled between the 1969 Perceptrons book and the mid-1980s revival
  capture promoted 2026-06-30 · neural-networks, ai-history, ai-winter, backpropagation, perceptrons
• Classic AI inference engines applied IF-THEN rules to a knowledge base to derive new facts
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-06-04 · AI-history, expert-systems, inference-engine, MYCIN, forward-chaining