The history of AI shows how setting evaluation standards fueled progress. But today's LLMs are asked to do tasks without clear benchmarks.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Princeton University history professor Matthew Jones discussed the work of Alan Turing and his friends as well as John McCarthy and his allies as it ...

Amid resounding questions about what AI will do to the future, and that’s usually the top priority for scryers of the new tech explosion, there are also unanswered questions about what it will do to ...

Does history repeat itself? That hoary question is examined by Will and Ariel Durant in The Lessons of History and then answered obviously in the negative. “There is no certainty that the future will ...

The field of artificial intelligence has been boom-and-bust since its early days, and during another boom, the path is worth revisiting. Frank Rosenblatt with the Mark I Perceptron, the first ...

A roomsize computer equipped with a new type of circuitry, the Perceptron, was introduced to the world in 1958 in a brief news story buried deep in The New York Times. The story cited the U.S. Navy as ...

This AI music timeline covers everything from Ghostwriter's "Fake Drake" song to Suno and Udio's blockbuster settlements with ...

In the 1990s, tech companies used utopian language to sell the internet. The AI industry is taking a different approach.

While artificial intelligence excels at tasks like coding and podcast generation, it struggles to accurately answer high-level history questions, according to a study. Artificial intelligence-powered ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jesse Damiani covers AI, ClimateTech, and emerging media. Popular large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can make ...

A furious political leader shouting a message of hate to an adoring audience. A child crying over the massacre of her family. Emaciated men in prison uniforms, starved to the edge of death because of ...

Probably not the most in-demand use, but a really cool one. And maybe something that makes originalism easier?