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AI History: Booms, Winters, and Revivals

TL;DR: AI history is a hundred-year cycle of hype booms and funding winters, and the current wave is the field’s third boom: founded in 1956, frozen out in the 1970s and again from 1987, revived after 2012 on data, GPU compute and backpropagation. The groundwork predates the name by decades: a 1923…

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  1. 2026-10-19 09:01 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    AI History: Booms, Winters, and Revivals

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