The First AI Winter

Minsky & Papert's Perceptrons (1969) kills funding, the Lisp-machine and Connection-Machine boom goes bust — neural networks' long exile.

Playlist by @backprop_paper

9 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. The First AI Winter Is Over — Errata History
  2. Interview With Marvin Minsky, 1990 — GBH
  3. Marvin Minsky - The problem with perceptrons (121/151) — Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People
  4. Marvin Minsky - Embarrassing mistakes in perceptron research (122/151) — Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People
  5. Architecture of the CM-5, lecture by Daniel Hillis — Computer History Museum
  6. A Cult AI Computer’s Boom and Bust — Asianometry
  7. A Brief History of AI: From Machine Learning to Gen AI to Agentic AI — IBM Technology
  8. Deep Learning(CS7015): Lec 1.2 From Spring to Winter of AI — NPTEL-NOC IITM
  9. Ep. 2 - Five Decades of Neural Networks with Geoffrey Hinton — Stanford Digital Economy Lab