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HistoryThe fight to control your software has reached AIThe decades-old fight over who can inspect, change and share software now centers on AI models. The two best-known definitions of open already differ on the training data.
HistoryThe machine learned to play by playing againA checkers board became a laboratory for a question that still shapes AI: can a machine get better at a task by trying it?
HistoryBefore AI, a mathematician asked how machines could steerA wartime prediction problem helped give an old idea a new name—and a surprising relevance to AI agents.
HistoryBefore chatbots answered us, we argued about the testThree encounters show how hard it is to decide what a convincing answer proves.