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author Henry S Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
date Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:25:02 +0100
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1 Points to make: BCS observation
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3 Phase 1: 1960--1970s: AI -> CogSci trajectory from basing AI on what's
4 understood in Psych/Ling/Anthro/Socio etc. and developing
5 computational implementable approaches to understanding e.g. human
6 language. HMMs
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8 Phase 2, Late 1970s-early 20th: Evidence-based, but with relatively
9 little evidence by today's standards: a few millions of words of
10 written (American) English, a few 10s of hours of spoken, simple
11 probabilistic models, _no_ reference to human process. ANNs.
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13 Phase 3, 2010s to 2023: Step-change in the size (of data, of models,
14 of compute power) and in the complexity of the architecture (LLMs) and
15 the underlying mathematics.
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17 Apothesis: Release of ChatGPT in April 2023 (?).
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19 But one thing hasn't changed: it's all about the _form_ of the data,
20 not the substance (BCS).