Fascinating birth of AI, first chatbots and the power of US Department of Defense (History of LLMs #2)

Discover the pivotal role of cognitive sciences in the rebirth of NLP and the journey from machine translation to artificial intelligence

Introduction

In the first episode of the series about LLMs history, we spoke about the bright rise and full crash of Machine translation (MT), the pioneering subfield of natural language processing (NLP). The rebirth of NLP in 1960s has come from an unexpected side – cognitive sciences. The brightest minds gathered at fateful conferences and proposed a f…