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AI Technologies
How the field actually got here, from perceptrons through the two winters to the transformer, plus field guides to putting the current generation into a business without the hype.
7 articles
Real History of AI Part 5: From the Transformer to ChatGPT (2017-2022)
ChatGPT is not the arrival of AI. It is UX on top of 5 years of scaling: BERT, GPT-1, GPT-2, GPT-3, InstructGPT - and a 2019 GPT-2 commercial case study.
May 2, 2026 · 8 min
The Real History of AI, Part 4: The Deep-Learning Big Bang (2012–2017)
On 30 Sep 2012 deep learning stopped being academic. AlexNet won ImageNet by a record margin. Five years - word2vec, AlphaGo, GANs, the Transformer.
May 1, 2026 · 8 min
Real History of AI Part 3: Recommenders, Vision, Quiet Revolution
By 2010, AI ran inside every service you used. Netflix predicted taste, Last.fm built playlists, Facebook tagged friends - nobody called any of it AI.
Apr 30, 2026 · 7 min
The Real History of AI, Part 2: Backprop, SVM, and the Second Winter (1980–2000)
In 1986 neural networks got a working algorithm and most of the industry missed it. OCR read your mail, SVMs won benchmarks - all of it 'hidden AI'.
Apr 29, 2026 · 8 min
Real History of AI Part 1: Perceptrons, Symbolic AI, First Winter
AI did not arrive with ChatGPT. The first mathematical neuron was described in 1943, a working perceptron ran in 1958, and by 1969 neural nets were buried.
Apr 28, 2026 · 7 min
AI Integration in Business: The 2026 Field Guide That Skips the Hype
AI integration projects fail because the brief is wrong, not because the tech is hard. A 2026 playbook with the framing, numbers, and 73% failure-mode pattern.
Oct 10, 2025 · 5 min
AI Chatbots in Customer Service: What Actually Moves CSAT in 2026
Most chatbot deployments lower CSAT. The 30% that work share three patterns: tight scope, sub-30-second escalation, first-turn AI disclosure. Field guide.
Oct 4, 2025 · 6 min
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