Intel 8087 Adder

Discover how Intel's 8087 adder enabled 80s computing & paved the way for modern AI

https://airanked.dev/posts/intel-8087-adder-explained

#Intel8087 #FloatingPoint #AIHistory

The artificial life tradition of the 1980s made a claim neither symbolic AI nor neural networks had made: that intelligence might be emergent rather than designed. You do not program the behavior. You set up the conditions. The field was right.
AlphaGo Zero learned to play Go through self-play. Hillis proved the idea on the Connection Machine in 1990. Some ideas arrive early and wait. #AIHistory #ArtificialLife

https://jameshoward.us/2026/06/10/simple-rules-surprising-worlds/

Decades ago, Jeff Shrager wrote one of the most influential BASIC versions of ELIZA

Years later, he helped us rediscover the original source code

Nothing clever to say, but what symmetry!

https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/eliza-clones?authuser=0

#TeamELIZA #ELIZA #AIHistory

Researchers who had 'artificial intelligence' on their CVs in the late 1980s quietly rebranded as 'machine learning' practitioners. That wasn't cynical. It was accurate. 'Machine learning' described what the surviving methods were actually doing. The AI winter sorted the field. Those who stayed built what came next.

https://jameshoward.us/2026/06/04/the-second-winter/ #AIHistory #MachineLearning

In 1961, a robot took a job no one wanted. The same robot would have been helpless in a kitchen. Danger isn't a property of an environment. It's a relationship between an environment and the body encountering it. New post on the ecology of work and what robots taught us about human fitness:
https://jameshoward.us/2026/05/29/the-ecology-of-work/

#AI #Robotics #LaborEconomics #AIHistory

Reanimation of the First Automatic Theorem Prover (From 1956)

https://github.com/dmoews/logic-theorist

#HackerNews #Tech #AIHistory

Google celebrates America’s 250th anniversary with AI-driven history experience

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/google-america-250/