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ai-winter

36 notes carry this tag — 1 moc, 14 claims, 4 observations, 1 question, 13 captures, 1 myth, 2 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
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  The panic that fed what it feared
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · cfius, exon-florio, darpa, strategic-computing-initiative, fifth-generation

Everything else

• The late-1980s US 'Japan panic' — one anxiety, two policy branches, one bloodline
  topic map 2026-09-02 · cfius, exon-florio, darpa, strategic-computing-initiative, fifth-generation
• McCarthy's 1973 Lighthill review named the GPS formalism directly as a source of AI's 'mistaken' published performance predictions
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, general-problem-solver, overconfident-prediction, ai-winter
• Re-fetch of McCarthy's 1973 Lighthill-review page confirms the 'little relevance to AI' and heuristic/combinatorial-explosion quotes verbatim
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-19 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, control-theory, combinatorial-explosion, ai-winter
• 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
• SRI's neural-net group retooled toward symbolic AI around 1965–66, years before Minsky and Papert's Perceptrons was published in 1969 — the social closure predates the formal refutation
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, perceptrons
• Dreyfus's 1988 essay and Olazaran's 1993 SRI interviews converge on the same verdict — connectionism's mid-1960s eclipse was social closure, not scientific refutation — while naming different social mechanisms
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, sociology-of-science
• What genuinely connects Dreyfus & Dreyfus's 1988 vindication claim and SRI's ARPA-funding retooling: independent evidence for the same 'never refuted, socially displaced' verdict
  capture promoted 2026-08-13 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, sociology-of-science
• The 'Perceptrons killed connectionism' myth only half-fits Skinner's taxonomy — its causal-attribution component falls outside all four mythologies
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-28 · historiography, quentin-skinner, mythology-of-doctrines, myth-ledger, perceptrons
• DoD's 'Other Transactions' authority, not shared subject matter, is the real bridge between Nestor's neural chips and AC Gravity's antigravity grant
  capture promoted Tier 3 2026-07-24 · defense-funding, other-transactions-authority, darpa, antigravity, ai-winter
• 10 U.S.C. 2371 'Other Transactions' authority is DARPA's 1989-invented mechanism for funding work outside standard procurement or grant review
  claim budding 2026-07-24 · defense-funding, other-transactions-authority, darpa, procurement-law, ai-winter
• DoD's Other Transactions authority -- not shared subject matter -- is the real, narrower bridge between Nestor Inc.'s neural chips and AC Gravity LLC's antigravity grant
  observation seedling 2026-07-24 · vault-bridge-confirmed, defense-funding, other-transactions-authority, ai-winter, antigravity
• Japan's 1982 Fifth Generation Computer project inspired DARPA's 1983 Strategic Computing Initiative, framed as a Sputnik-like national challenge
  claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-12 · darpa, strategic-computing-initiative, fifth-generation, ai-winter, japan
• John McCarthy's 1973 rebuttal to the Lighthill report dismissed control theory as having 'little relevance to AI'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, control-theory, optimal-control, ai-winter
• 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
• Trade press reported Nestor's Ni1000 chip was funded with $1.2M from DARPA and $400,000 from ONR — contradicted by Nestor's own SEC filings, which record $1,630,000 and $776,167 for two distinct contracts
  claim budding Tier 3 2026-07-12 · nestor, ni1000, darpa, onr, neural-networks
• The neural-net→'deep learning' rebrand can be read as a field-scale Fresh Start Effect — dissociation from a stigmatized past self — though the collective-scale extension is unestablished
  observation seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · fresh-start-effect, deep-learning, ai-winter, rebranding, cross-domain-analogy
• '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
• The late-1980s US 'Japan panic' is the real bridge between Exon-Florio and Nestor's neural chips — one anxiety, two branches, and a Fairchild-to-Intel genealogy that touches both
  capture promoted 2026-07-11 · cfius, exon-florio, ai-winter, neural-networks, darpa
• The 1973 AI establishment named the wall: McCarthy called control theory 'little relevance to AI' — the field where backprop's ancestor already lived
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, control-theory, optimal-control, combinatorial-explosion
• Confirm against a standalone 1969 first-edition scan of Perceptrons that 'credit-assignment' is absent from the original text (present only in the 1988 Epilogue)
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, primary-source-verification, history-of-ml
• Does the term or framing "credit assignment" appear in Minsky & Papert's 1969 Perceptrons, and in what context?
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · perceptrons, minsky-papert, credit-assignment, terminology, history-of-ml
• The other 1960s-80s connectionists didn't vanish -- they chased the funding or exited into industry
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, connectionism, ai-winter, sociology-of-science, funding
• 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
• HNC Software's 1992 Falcon Fraud Manager became the seed of FICO's card-fraud scoring infrastructure
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · connectionism, ai-winter, hnc, fico, fraud-detection
• 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
• Nestor Inc. sold commercial neural-network pattern recognition through the AI winter yet had never turned a profit after 19 years
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-09 · connectionism, ai-winter, nestor, neural-networks, commercialization
• SRI's neural-network group retooled toward symbolic AI to follow ARPA funding, not because perceptrons had been refuted
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · connectionism, ai-winter, sri, funding, sociology-of-science
• Re-read the Lighthill 1973 report PDF and confirm the combinatorial-explosion and general-problem-solving quotes verbatim
  question answered 2026-07-09 · lighthill-report, ai-winter, symbolic-ai, verification, history-of-ml
• Does Perceptrons (1969) p. 232 contain the 'intuitive judgment … sterile' passage verbatim?
  capture promoted 2026-07-08 · Perceptrons, Minsky-Papert, history-of-AI, AI-winter, multilayer-perceptrons
• 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