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Book cover of "The Shortest History of AI" by Toby Walsh, featuring blue and white text on a dark background with a small glowing circle near the center—an apt nod to early AI like Logic Theorist.

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Logic Theorist: The program that rewrote the foundations of mathematics

In this excerpt from "The Shortest History of AI," Toby Walsh explores the history of the Logic Theorist, the first AI to prove mathematical theorems.

A search bar with the phrase "the future" being typed and a blue search button below it. An arrow cursor points to the search phrase. The background is black.

Perplexity, Google, and the battle for AI search supremacy

Can AI-powered “answer engines” replace the 10 blue links model?

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Bayesian search: A simple rule to find stuff you’ve lost

Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.

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