A developer has re-published Douglas Hofstadter's 1983 Scientific American introduction to Lisp, originally part of his Metamagical Themas column, for a new generation of programmers. The piece explai…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026, to a limited set of organizations, with broader availability planned for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as via API and Ama…
A comparison of the 1955 Dartmouth artificial intelligence proposal with the public record as of September 2026 shows that most of the seven proposed problems have seen substantial progress, though se…
The terms 'neat' and 'scruffy' describe two contrasting approaches to AI research, originating in the 1970s with Roger Schank. Neats use a single formal paradigm like logic or neural networks and veri…
The 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon, is widely considered the founding event of ar…
The article traces the history of artificial intelligence from John McCarthy's 1955 Dartmouth workshop proposal to the present, arguing that the field's borrowed vocabulary—words like 'learning,' 'vis…
A 1955 proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, co-authored by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, and Claude Shannon, is credited with founding th…
The San Jose Sharks' development camp featured 7-foot-1 defenseman Alexander Karmanov, the tallest player ever drafted by the team, who made 6-foot-4 legend Joe Thornton look small. Karmanov, selected…
A guide to programming Lisp on the DEC PDP-1, one of the earliest interactive Lisp environments, was published. The tutorial covers bringing up the system, loading and saving programs, and mixing asse…
The field of artificial intelligence marks its 70th anniversary since being formally established at the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project. AI has evolved from early neural network concepts by McC…
Lithp.py, a Lisp interpreter for John McCarthy's original Lisp, was released around 2008 by developer Fogus. The interpreter, written in Python 2.6.1+, includes core functions like car, cdr, cons, and…
Aditya Kumarakrishnan, a technical fellow at Walmart Global Tech, presented at a conference on building AI agents, arguing that the industry is in an 'amnesia phase' and repeating mistakes from past c…