Mercurial > hg > BCS
changeset 89:6299f119fff4
bare bones
| author | Henry S Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> |
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| date | Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:25:02 +0100 |
| parents | 7a3efa1c6e69 |
| children | 3592072a987e |
| files | in_re_Magnifica_Humanitas.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/in_re_Magnifica_Humanitas.txt Tue Jun 16 15:25:02 2026 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +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).