isHistory https://paragraph.com/@ishistory undefined Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:33:36 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html https://github.com/jpmonette/feed en isHistory https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/602a4726787ce953ba1c10157292c65d2178f8c7cde4e880c0f19c7b34abb7b7.jpg https://paragraph.com/@ishistory All rights reserved <![CDATA[ELIZA, 1966: The Chatbot That Made People Cry]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/eliza-1966-the-chatbot-that-made-people-cry Y159bWbK2aRSdlklKlfi Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:05:06 GMT The full story of Joseph Weizenbaum's chatbot — the simple pattern-matching program that humans treated as a therapist, the ELIZA effect that it revealed about human psychology, and why its creator was horrified by what he had made.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The Logic Theorist, 1956: The First AI Program]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-logic-theorist-1956-the-first-ai-program 4vitoRcPkSiLtmEu3rOV Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:05:00 GMT Newell and Simon's program that proved mathematical theorems — the first working AI system, the founding moment of symbolic AI, and the extraordinary ambitions it inspired.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The Reasoning Models: When AI Learned to Think Before Speaking]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-reasoning-models-when-ai-learned-to-think-before-speaking huKJr8Ec0g16PxxQ3V2m Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:04:54 GMT The story of the development of chain-of-thought reasoning and the emergence of "thinking" models — OpenAI o1, DeepSeek-R1, the test-time compute insight, and the ARC-AGI breakthrough. The technical development that began closing the gap between AI pattern-matching and…

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The Scientific AI: When Machines Became Research Partners]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-scientific-ai-when-machines-became-research-partners 2XYAY3on8Ql3UcB77YBl Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:04:50 GMT The full story of AI's transformation of scientific research — from AlphaFold to AI-designed drugs to AI-generated mathematical proofs to AI models of climate and materials. The beginning of a new kind of science.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The Agentic Turn: When AI Started Doing Things]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-agentic-turn-when-ai-started-doing-things FGcvqX79Hd6Ac2oRbTYn Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:04:41 GMT The story of the transition from AI systems that answered questions to AI systems that took actions — AutoGPT, computer use, coding agents, prompt injection, and the new alignment challenges created when AI becomes an actor rather than just a responder.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The AI Election: When Synthetic Media Met Democracy]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-ai-election-when-synthetic-media-met-democracy AYxdXmEkCZHPFqcHq60Y Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:54:39 GMT The story of the 2024 election cycle — the deepfakes, the voice clones, the AI-generated misinformation, and the unprecedented challenge to democratic process posed by AI systems capable of generating compelling synthetic media of any candidate saying anything.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The Multimodal Moment: When AI Learned to See, Hear, and Speak]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-multimodal-moment-when-ai-learned-to-see-hear-and-speak ShZIvbCnMLskrzicgRMW Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:54:34 GMT The full story of the multimodal revolution — from DALL-E to Stable Diffusion to GPT-4V to Sora — the integration of vision, audio, and language into unified AI systems. How the barriers between modalities fell, the creative disruption, and the deepfake crisis.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The GPT-4 Moment: One Year That Changed Everything]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-gpt-4-moment-one-year-that-changed-everything HHjUa3l9wua38VKQ7HXn Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:54:28 GMT The full story of the twelve months from March 2023 to March 2024 — GPT-4, the multimodal revolution, the competitive response from Google and Anthropic, and the extraordinary pace at which AI went from impressive to indispensable for hundreds of millions of people.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The Turing Test, 1950: The Question That Still Has No Answer]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-turing-test-1950-the-question-that-still-has-no-answer ZAZk4vZjtUE7KkoAz1Xd Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:54:16 GMT Alan Turing's 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" — the imitation game, the objections, the philosophical implications, and why the test he proposed is still contested seventy-five years later.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The Great Pause: The Moment the AI World Held Its Breath]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-great-pause-the-moment-the-ai-world-held-its-breath 7nY8fRsCWCOdeZS6PehK Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:54:11 GMT The story of the March 2023 open letter calling for a six-month pause in AI development — who signed, who didn't, what it meant, and what it revealed about the state of AI governance. The brief, charged moment when it seemed possible that humanity might collectively decide to…

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[ChatGPT, 2022: When AI Became Everyone's Business]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/chatgpt-2022-when-ai-became-everyones-business azJJa2QJuJ8zbIfSy51Y Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:51:31 GMT The full story of the ChatGPT launch — five days to a million users, a hundred million in two months, the panic in schools and universities, the excitement in offices, and what it meant that AI had crossed the threshold from specialised tool to mainstream reality.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[AlphaFold, 2020: The Protein Folding Revolution]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/alphafold-2020-the-protein-folding-revolution wgjEA6DYKY5hp3Fh4PnN Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:51:26 GMT How DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 solved one of biology's grand challenges — predicting protein structures from amino acid sequences — and why this single AI achievement has already transformed drug discovery, biological research, and the relationship between AI and science. The…

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol, 2016: The Game That Humbled Humanity]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/alphago-vs-lee-sedol-2016-the-game-that-humbled-humanity wH1WhiRHVQQihtasuuUS Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:51:17 GMT The five-game match between the world's greatest Go player and DeepMind's AI system — Move 37, Lee Sedol's astonishing comeback in Game 4, and why one of history's greatest Go players retired because of what he witnessed.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The Transformer, 2017: Attention Is All You Need]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-transformer-2017-attention-is-all-you-need G5S4edGcE6V04MEtB8e3 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:51:13 GMT The full story of the "Attention Is All You Need" paper — how a Google Brain team developed a new architecture for sequence modelling that discarded recurrence entirely, and how it became the foundation for every large language model in existence.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The Transformer, 2017: Attention Is All You Need]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-transformer-2017-attention-is-all-you-need kdMpoTMQbIG6Xfno7JBu Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:51:13 GMT The full story of the "Attention Is All You Need" paper — how a Google Brain team developed a new architecture for sequence modelling that discarded recurrence entirely, and how it became the foundation for every large language model in existence.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[AlexNet, 2012: The Breakthrough Nobody Saw Coming]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/alexnet-2012-the-breakthrough-nobody-saw-coming wC3TCX9OgCDzzrFeiQAQ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:50:52 GMT The ImageNet competition of 2012 — the weeks of training on two gaming GPUs, the submission that shocked the computer vision world, and why a single paper changed the trajectory of artificial intelligence. The starting gun of the modern AI era.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The ImageNet Project, 2009]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-imagenet-project-2009 4sYQr7DDGA3eEolgKKXs Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:43:12 GMT The creation of the dataset that made the deep learning revolution possible — fourteen million labelled images, three years of work on Amazon Mechanical Turk, and the competition that would announce AI's arrival to the world.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[The Netflix Prize, 2006]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/the-netflix-prize-2006 uTak19dWbBreUoGIz4u8 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:43:07 GMT The $1 million contest that transformed machine learning — how an open competition for a better recommendation algorithm became the first demonstration that crowdsourcing scientific progress could work.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[Deep Blue vs. Kasparov, 1997]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/deep-blue-vs-kasparov-1997 tuagiH3pHsFV4CLeJQau Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:43:03 GMT The match that defined an era — the full story of both encounters between the world's best chess player and IBM's machine, the controversy, and why a computer beating the world champion felt like an existential question.

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]]> ishistory@newsletter.paragraph.com (Ishaan ) <![CDATA[Backpropagation Goes Mainstream, 1986]]> https://paragraph.com/@ishistory/backpropagation-goes-mainstream-1986 4s7A8tQrp57ghWDBprHT Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:42:58 GMT The full story of the 1986 PDP volumes and the Rumelhart-Hinton-Williams backpropagation paper — the algorithm that would eventually power the entire deep learning revolution, published at the worst possible moment for AI's reputation.

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