THE BITTER LESSON: PART 3

The Death of a Dream: When AI's First Winter Came | The Bitter Lesson
In 1997, Garry Kasparov sat across from a machine that didn't understand chess—it only computed until truth became an outcome. When he resigned, he called Deep Blue "as intelligent as your alarm clock." But beneath the insult was something more tender: the need to shrink the opponent so the self could survive.
This is the story of what happened next. Of a winter that froze an entire approach to artificial intelligence for decades. Of two brilliant teenagers from the Bronx who grew into rivals whose arguments would shape—and scar—a field. Of Frank Rosenblatt, the man who believed machines could learn, and the July afternoon when the Chesapeake Bay took him before vindication could arrive.
"The drop that left its homeland, the sea, and then returned—it found an oyster waiting and grew into a pearl." — Rumi
Some lessons are bitter because they're wrong. Some are bitter because they're true. And some are bitter because we had to lose something we loved to learn them.

📖 From "The Bitter Lesson" — a novel exploring 70 years of AI history through the lens of Rich Sutton's famous essay and Rumi's mystical philosophy.
#ArtificialIntelligence #AIHistory #DeepBlue #Kasparov #NeuralNetworks #AIWinter #TheBitterLesson #Perceptron #MachineLearning