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This document appears to be page 184 of a manuscript or essay, likely written by Stephen Wolfram. It details the history of Artificial Intelligence, citing the stagnation caused by Minsky and Papert's work on perceptrons, the rise and fall of expert systems, and the narrator's personal journey in developing Wolfram|Alpha between 2002 and 2003 based on computational knowledge rather than brain simulation. The document bears a House Oversight stamp, indicating it was part of a production of documents, likely related to the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's connections with scientists.

People (5)

Name Role Context
Frank Rosenblatt Inventor
Invented the perceptron (one-layer neural network).
Marvin Minsky Author/Researcher
Co-wrote the book 'Perceptrons' in the late sixties.
Seymour Papert Author/Researcher
Co-wrote the book 'Perceptrons' in the late sixties.
von Neumann Mathematician/Computer Scientist
Mentioned regarding the origins of computing and neural networks.
Narrator (Implied Stephen Wolfram) Author/Creator
First-person narrator discussing the creation of Wolfram|Alpha and their history with AI research.

Organizations (2)

Name Type Context
Wolfram|Alpha
Computational knowledge engine created by the narrator.
House Oversight Committee
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016404'.

Timeline (3 events)

Early seventies
Failure/crash of the symbolic AI approach.
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Late sixties
Publication of the book 'Perceptrons' by Minsky and Papert.
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Mid-2002 to 2003
Narrator revisited the concept of a computational knowledge system, leading to a change in perspective.
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Narrator

Relationships (2)

Marvin Minsky Co-authors Seymour Papert
wrote a book titled Perceptrons
Narrator Creator/Invention Wolfram|Alpha
This insight is what led to Wolfram|Alpha.

Key Quotes (4)

"This insight is what led to Wolfram|Alpha."
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"I had assumed that there was some magic mechanism that made us vastly more capable than anything that was just computational. But that assumption was wrong."
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"People said, 'These guys have written a proof that neural networks can’t do anything interesting, therefore no neural networks can do anything interesting, so let’s forget about neural networks.'"
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"Now I realized that there wasn’t a bright line between what is intelligent and what is simply computational."
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