#ai-history
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#3424: Catching Up on AI Without the Firehose
Four curated sources that filter AI noise into signal — Import AI, The Batch, Stanford HAI, and a podcast.
#2741: What Theoretical Physicists Actually Do All Day
Chalkboards, arXiv firehoses, and 2 hours of real work. What the daily life of a theoretical physicist actually looks like.
#2408: How Backpropagation Actually Unlocks Neural Networks
How error signals flow backward through networks to make learning possible — and why "it's just calculus" misses the point.
#2276: A Guided Tour Through My Weird Prompts' Best Episodes
Discover ten standout episodes that define the essence of My Weird Prompts, from AI insights to quirky curiosities.
#2076: Is Pure NLP Dead? The Hidden Scaffolding of AI
Modern AI didn't appear from nowhere. Discover how decades of linguistic rules and statistical models built the foundation for today's LLMs.
#1979: When Marketing Swallows the Tech
Is AI the same as Machine Learning? We break down the nested hierarchy of artificial intelligence, from symbolic logic to neural networks.
#1799: The Original AI Blueprints: BERT & CLIP
Before GPT, two models changed everything. Discover how BERT and CLIP taught machines to read and see the world.
#1547: Why AI Stopped Reading and Started Seeing Everything
From sequential bottlenecks to parallel powerhouses, discover how the Transformer architecture revolutionized how machines process the world.
#1001: The Long Haulers of AI
Think AI started with ChatGPT? Discover the "long haulers" in defense, medicine, and finance who have used machine learning for decades.
#599: AI Hunted Soviet Subs Long Before It Wrote Your Emails
AI didn't start in 2022. Discover the 70-year history of the "invisible" systems that have been quietly running our world for decades.
#261: The 70-Year Overnight Success: How AI Finally Arrived
Think AI was an overnight success? Join Herman and Corn as they trace the 70-year journey from rigid logic rules to modern deep learning.
#36: When Smart Software Became AI
AI isn't new. We've been using "smart software" for decades, from medical imaging to weather prediction, long before ChatGPT.