# HG changeset patch
# User Henry S Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
# Date 1781619902 -3600
# Node ID 6299f119fff473d12ffcbc6f84087a69971f9fee
# Parent  7a3efa1c6e694b2fe2cb5d93b174e5fa4d843ed7
bare bones

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+Points to make: BCS observation
+
+Phase 1: 1960--1970s: AI -> CogSci trajectory from basing AI on what's
+understood in Psych/Ling/Anthro/Socio etc. and developing
+computational implementable approaches to understanding e.g. human
+language.  HMMs
+
+Phase 2, Late 1970s-early 20th: Evidence-based, but with relatively
+little evidence by today's standards: a few millions of words of
+written (American) English, a few 10s of hours of spoken, simple
+probabilistic models, _no_ reference to human process.  ANNs.
+
+Phase 3, 2010s to 2023:  Step-change in the size (of data, of models,
+of compute power) and in the complexity of the architecture (LLMs) and
+the underlying mathematics.
+
+Apothesis: Release of ChatGPT in April 2023 (?).
+
+But one thing hasn't changed: it's all about the _form_ of the data,
+not the substance (BCS).