By the late 1980s AI had fallen into disrepute, a byword for overpromising and underdelivering. Those researchers still in the field started to shun the term. It was from one of those pockets of ...

A history of AI models for text generation. Language models go back to Andrey Markov, who applied mathematics to poetry in 1913.Markov showed that in Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, the probability of ...