Category: History of AI
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Reading Time: 8 minutes – Uncover the fascinating tale of Lisp Machines: specialized supercomputers built solely for early AI. Learn why these expensive, powerful machines ultimately vanished, yet left a lasting legacy on computing and AI development. A true Throwback Thursday for tech history!
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Reading Time: 7 minutes – In 1983, a Soviet officer ignored his AI system’s nuclear alert—and saved the world. As AI invades modern warfare, his story forces us to ask: Can machines make moral decisions, or are we losing the human judgment we can’t afford to automate?
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Reading Time: 10 minutes – In 2016, Microsoft’s Tay AI was launched to learn from humans—and spiraled into chaos within hours. Her story is a cautionary tale of ambition without ethics, shaping the future of AI safety and alignment. Tay wasn’t just a chatbot—she was a mirror. And what we saw changed everything.
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Reading Time: 15 minutes – The journey from AI@50 to AI@75 isn’t just about building better machines. It’s about building a better humanity. And the next chapter — like the last — is ours to write.
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Reading Time: 13 minutes – In the 1980s, Max Headroom glitched onto TV as a fictional AI—but his warnings about media control, digital identity, and artificial personas feel eerily real today. Explore how this retro cyber-icon predicted the AI-driven world we’re now living in.
