Eras
Origins: cybernetics and computation (1943–1956)Can brain, machine and information be written in one language?7 papersSymbolic AI and the first neural networks (1956–1974)Can intelligence be written as search and logic, and how much can a perceptron learn?18 papersKnowledge systems and the return of connectionism (1974–1993)Can expert knowledge be written as rules, and can multilayer networks be trained?28 papersStatistical learning (1990–2011)Can generalization from data be guaranteed?41 papersDeep learning (2012–2017)Deep networks, GPUs and large datasets arrive together.46 papersPretraining and generative models (2017–2022)Scale, self-supervision and alignment.29 papersAgents (2022– )Models use tools and act.22 papers