AI: An ancient nightmare?
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The Rise and Fall of AI
The technology that started to work this century is really a quite old idea it's called neural networks in fact it even predates Turing's first paper on AI. Early researchers found out the techniques they had didn't scale. And how long did there be a comparative hold up in developments in AI and what eventually led to a breakthrough? Well really things died down quite substantially in the 1970s when funding agencies in the UK said look we've had enough you've been promising grand things and you're not delivering"
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