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Harald Sack<p>Building on the 90s, statistical n-gram language models, trained on vast text collections, became the backbone of NLP research. They fueled advancements in nearly all NLP techniques of the era, laying the groundwork for today's AI. </p><p>F. Jelinek (1997), Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA</p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NLP</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/LanguageModels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LanguageModels</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/HistoryOfAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfAI</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/TextProcessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TextProcessing</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historyofscience</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ISE2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISE2025</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@fizise" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fizise</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@fiz_karlsruhe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fiz_karlsruhe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@tabea" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tabea</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@enorouzi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>enorouzi</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@sourisnumerique" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sourisnumerique</span></a></span></p>
Dimitri Coelho Mollo<p>Nice high-resolution diagramme with a timeline of several key events in the history of cybernetics + AI, by Danielle J. Williams: <a href="https://www.daniellejwilliams.com/_files/ugd/a6ff55_8ec3771d223c435f9b3dc2a1f692f5ba.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">daniellejwilliams.com/_files/u</span><span class="invisible">gd/a6ff55_8ec3771d223c435f9b3dc2a1f692f5ba.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.sunet.se/tags/historyofai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historyofai</span></a> <a href="https://social.sunet.se/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p>
Karthik Srinivasan<p>A must read longform on the pioneer of AI chatbot who became AI's main and earliest detractors, Joseph Weizenbaum (of ELIZA fame here at MIT) by Ben Tarnoff! </p><p>Weizenbaum's was a lone voice in the 1970s, and many of his views are as apt now as they were then. Almost the entire article is chock full of quotes, and so here is a thread with quotes and a few of my thoughts interspersed.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-weizenbaum-inventor-eliza-chatbot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/202</span><span class="invisible">3/jul/25/joseph-weizenbaum-inventor-eliza-chatbot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai</span></a></p><p>"There is so much in Weizenbaum’s thinking that is urgently relevant now. Perhaps his most fundamental heresy was the belief that the computer revolution, which Weizenbaum not only lived through but centrally participated in, was actually a counter-revolution."</p><p>I too had my early training in computer science, and have come to see it increasingly as counter-revolutionary not even delivering on its promises of economic productivity (topic for another day). With my expertise in neural networks, I should be riding atop the current wave of AI to the bank, instead, I mostly see it as a land of false promises mediated by dangerous levels of silicon valley mythmaking.</p><p>1/8</p><p><a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/HistoryOfAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfAI</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Computing</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Critique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Critique</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ideology</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/ManVsMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ManVsMachine</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a> <a href="https://neuromatch.social/tags/Weizenbaum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Weizenbaum</span></a></p>
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