Pulse: Deep Dive

Nobody Noticed: From 2012 to 2022, a single theoretical insight — how AI performance scales with data and compute — passed through five organizations on three continents like a baton no one could hold: OpenAI discovered scaling laws, the discoverers left to found Anthropic, DeepMind corrected the math, Meta applied the correction to build LLaMA. Meanwhile, all eight authors of Google's Transformer paper departed, AlphaGo's Move 37 revealed that AI could think in ways humans couldn't even parse, and GitHub Copilot — not ChatGPT — quietly became the first mass-market LLM product seventeen months before the world noticed. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Nobody Noticed ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New episodes every weekday. Follow us on X @ThePulseSPN singularitypulse.substack.com

Geoffrey Hinton left the United States in 1987 because military money in AI disturbed him — a decision that accidentally made Toronto the capital of deep learning's revival. Twenty-five years later, his student Alex Krizhevsky trained AlexNet on two consumer gaming GPUs and beat the field by a margin so large it was initially assumed to be an error: 10.9 percentage points in a competition where progress was measured in fractions. This single result ended one paradigm and started another, and it happened in a bedroom, not a lab. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Google Built the Future and Lost It ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New episodes every weekday. Follow us on X @ThePulseSPN singularitypulse.substack.com

Turing's 1950 paper was far stranger than the 'Turing Test' it's remembered for — he seriously entertained ESP, proposed building child-minds instead of programming adult ones, and set a prediction for the year 2000 that roughly came true in the most disputed way possible. His death in 1954 left a conceptual vacuum, and the field that emerged in his absence lurched between grand promises and supposed 'winters' that were partly mythological — US AI society membership actually tripled during the first one. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Before Anyone Called It AI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New episodes every weekday. Follow us on X @ThePulseSPN singularitypulse.substack.com

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