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lighthill-report

13 notes carry this tag — 6 claims, 2 questions, 4 captures, 1 essay. 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

Everything else

• McCarthy's 1973 Lighthill review located AI's central difficulty in knowledge representation, faulting Lighthill's 'non-standard' use of 'heuristics'
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-22 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, knowledge-representation, heuristics, symbolic-ai
• 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
• 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
• Re-fetch McCarthy's 1973 Lighthill-review page and confirm the 'little relevance to AI' and heuristic/combinatorial-explosion quotes verbatim
  question answered 2026-07-12 · lighthill-report, mccarthy, control-theory, verification, history-of-ml
• 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
• 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
• 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